Kolkata

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Known as the cultural capital of India, Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, has seen a revival of the arts and cultural movement with a new wave of art spaces emerging across the city. Drawing from a long literary, artistic, and architectural tradition, Kolkata is a mix of colonial remnants with a new age creative energy.

Museums

Ahuja Museum For Arts

Displays personal collection of artworks of SD Ahuja. They have a collection of 2000 artworks of over 250 artists. These artworks are from all across the world but mostly are from India and around.

Indian Museum

The largest and oldest museum in India showcasing a range of historical, cultural and scientific antiques, fossils, sculptures, and art objects.

The Kolkata Museum of Modern Art

Designed by the acclaimed Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron, this Museum has high-end gallery and art restoration facilities, artist studios and an outdoor performance theater. The space is designed to merge modern and contemporary, together with performing arts, music, cinema, photography, literature, fine art and sculpture.

Galleries

Experimenter, Hindustan Road

Showcases contemporary art with a multidisciplinary approach.

Experimenter, Ballygunge Place

Showcases contemporary art with a multidisciplinary approach.

Emami Art

Gallery showcasing contemporary and modern art supporting the development of art in India.

Arts Organization

Kolkata Centre for Creativity (KCC)

Interactive arts centre hosting diverse programmes spanning art, craft, performance art, and product design.

Arts Acre | Museum of Bengal Modern Art

Foundation and museum devoted to promoting and showcasing modern and contemporary Bengali and Indian art.

Seagull Foundation for the Arts

A multi-faceted art organization nurturing and disseminating creative and critical activity in the field of the arts, especially fine arts, theatre and cinema.