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Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya
One of the many museums in India that preserve and display materials associated with Mahatma Gandhi. This one particularly focuses on Bengal and Odisha.
The former riverside suburban residence of the Governor-General of India and later the Viceroy of India. It was built in 1823 by then-Governor-General Lord Hastings. Its front lawn contains a marble fountain, which was brought from the Taj Mahal by Lord Hastings.
Wife of viceroy Lord Canning, Charlotte Canning was a painter and a naturalist. She spent her time in Barrackpore indulging in her passions. She remains fresh in the Bengali mind with a popular sweetmeat leḍikeni named after her. After she died in 1861, Lady Canning was buried at her favourite spot. There is a statue of Lord Canning nearby. The former Danish colony of Serampore is visible from the opposite side.
Originally a residence of Rastraguru Surendranath Banerjee, who used to live here for a considerable period of time.