A museum dedicated to the history of boats in Bengal. The building also contains Puppet Museum, Kantha Museum, and a collection of tribal artefacts. It houses 46 wooden replicas of boats that depicts Bengal's boat heritage. The cargo boats of the Sundarbans, coastal fishing boats, and popular flat-bottomed boats of North Bengal to all-purpose dinghies have been featured here. It also exhibits a replica of Rabindranath Tagore's Padma boat and a replica of a boat from the Mohenjo-daro era.
Boat Museum is a public museum dedicated to the history of boats in the Bengal region. Located in the Institute of Cultural Research in Kankurgachi, Kolkata, it is India's first museum dedicated to understanding boats, indigenous boat-making, and their heritage. Adjacent to the Boat Museum is the Puppet Museum, Kantha Museum, and a collection of tribal artifacts.
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সুভাষ সরোবর Subhāsh Sorōbor
বিবেকানন্দ যুবভারতী ক্রীড়াঙ্গন Bibekānondo Jubobhārotī Krīṛāngon, VYBK
Colloquially Yuba Bharati or Salt Lake Stadium, the sports venue has the second largest non-auto racing capacity in the world and the largest in the Indian subcontinent. A major occasional crowd puller, the stadium is used for association football matches and athletics. The stadium was built in 1984 and holds 120,000 in a three-tier configuration.