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Indian Museum (Jadu Ghar)vsMaidan
Indian Museum and Maidan are both rated very highly by expert writers. On balance, Indian Museum scores significantly higher than Maidan. Indian Museum comes in at 89 with positive reviews from 4 reviews including Fodor's, Travel + Leisure and Frommer's.
Indian Museum (Jadu Ghar)
Frommer's
Fodor's
Lonely Planet
Travel + Leisure
27 Jawaharlal Nehru Rd, Kolkata 700016, India
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Frommer's "Containing things beautiful, unusual, and ancient, the museum is known to locals as Jadu Ghar, the House of Magic." Full review
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The textiles-and-decorative-arts gallery is most impressive. It can be difficult to find, however -- ask for assistance.
Fodor's "India's oldest museum has one of the largest and most comprehensive collections in Asia, including one of the best natural-history collections in the world." Full review
Lonely PlanetTop choice
"Mostly a loveably old-fashioned place that fills a large colonnaded palace ranged around a central lawn." Full review
Travel + Leisure "The country’s largest museum, is a vast and stolid colonial edifice full of unheralded oddities and treasures hidden in plain sight." Full review
Maidan Fodor's Lonely Planet
Just south of B.B.D. Bagh to just north of Alipore, and from the Hooghly River to J. L. Nehru Rd. and the shops of Park St., Kolkata, India
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Fodor's "The Maidan is now home to cricket fields, Eden Gardens, clubhouses of popular football (soccer) leagues, stadiums, monuments, statues of both British generals and Indian leaders, and a racecourse." Full review
Lonely Planet "The Maidan is where Kolkata's residents congregate for walks, spirited cricket and football matches, family outings, dates, tonga rides and general idling." Full review
