Asutosh Museum of Kolkata is one of the most famous and foremost public museum among the University of India. It was founded in the year 1937. The name of the museum goes after Sir Asutosh Mookerjee. He was one of the greatest educationists of our country who formulated the study of Indology which also includes Indian art and archeology at the postgraduate level. The Asutosh Museum of Kolkata is meant for the preservation, representation and study of the specimens of Indian art and antiquity. It began with only 5 objects, now it contains more than 25,000 items including sculptures, paintings, folk-arts, textiles, terracotta, etc. This worth visiting musuem is opened from monday to friday between 11am to 5pm.