Museums in Delhi

Located within Red Fort's Naubat Khana, this museum documents the 1947 Partition of British India through personal testimonies, photographs, documents, and everyday objects from displaced families.

The Partition Museum at the Dara Shikoh Library documents the 1947 Partition of India through personal testimonies, photographs, letters and objects donated by families on both sides of the border. The small but emotionally powerful collection gives human scale to one of the 20th century's largest mass migrations.

India's largest museum, housing over 200,000 artefacts spanning five millennia—from Indus Valley relics to Mughal miniatures and Chola bronzes. Located on Janpath near India Gate, it is the country's foremost repository of art, archaeology, and decorative arts.

Housed in the former residence of the Maharaja of Jaipur near India Gate, the NGMA holds India's premier collection of modern and contemporary art from the mid-19th century onward.

The National Gallery of Modern Art houses India's premier collection of modern art — over 14,000 works spanning the Bengal School, Progressive Artists' Group and contemporary movements. Masterpieces by Amrita Sher-Gil, MF Husain, Rabindranath Tagore and Ram Kumar hang in the former Jaipur House.

The mansion where Mahatma Gandhi spent the last 144 days of his life and was assassinated on 30 January 1948. Now a museum and memorial, it preserves his room exactly as he left it and traces the journey of India's independence movement.

The National Rail Museum sprawls across 11 acres near Chanakyapuri, displaying 30 vintage locomotives and coaches spanning 160 years of Indian railway history. Highlights include the 1855 Fairy Queen (the world's oldest working steam engine), a maharaja's ornate saloon car and a monorail from Patiala.

A living museum near Purana Qila displaying India's textile, folk-art, and craft traditions across 35 galleries and an open-air village complex reproducing rural architectural styles from every region.

The Crafts Museum (National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum) is an open-air celebration of India's living craft traditions. Reconstructed village dwellings from across India — mud houses, timber cottages, painted havelis — surround courtyards where artisans demonstrate weaving, pottery and embroidery.

A major interactive science museum near Purana Qila featuring hands-on exhibits across physics, biology, technology, and space science, spread over multiple themed galleries connected by ramps.