Thakurpukur

Worth seeing in and around Thakurpukur

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Gurusaday Museum

   The Gurusaday Museum is a folk arts and crafts museum located in Kolkata, India.

   1.1 km · Folk arts and crafts museum in Kolkata, India · Wikipedia
2. 02
   State Archaeological Museum

   State Archaeological Museum, West Bengal in Kolkata, West Bengal, is an archeological museum founded in 1962 and has collections including rare tools of the Early, Middle and the Late Stone Ages from Susunia and other sites, proto-historic antiquities from Pandu Rajar Dhibi, terracottas, sculptures, stone and stucco from the Gupta, Maurya, Shunga, Kushana, Pala and Medieval times. It is located at the vicinity of Behala Bazar Metro on Diamond Harbour Road and Nafar Chandra Das Road at Behala behind Siddeshwari Kali Temple There is also a section on ‘Historical Art’ opened in 1963 which displays large number of old terracottas, bronzes, wood-carvings, textiles and manuscripts.

   4 km · museum in Kolkata · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Sabarna Sangrahashala

   Sabarna Roy Choudhury was a Zamindar family of Mughal Bengal. They controlled significant swathes of territory, including what would later become Kolkata, prior to the sale of zamindari rights in 1698 to the East India Company.

   1.8 km · museum in Kolkata, West Bengal · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Employees State Insurance Corporation Medical College

   Employees State Insurance-Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research & Employees State Insurance Corporation Medical College and Hospital, Joka, is a NMC recognised medical college established in 2013 under the aegis of the ESI Corporation, an autonomous body, controlled by Government of India. This college received permission for 100 seats for this session from the National Medical Commission and is affiliated to the West Bengal University of Health Sciences.

   1.6 km · postgraduate medical college in Kolkata, India · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Vivekananda College, Thakurpukur

   Vivekananda College is a state government-aided public college, affiliated to the University of Calcutta, located in southwest Kolkata, close to the Thakurpukur metro station. The college offers both post-graduate and under-graduate courses in a number of subjects of science, arts and commerce.

   100 m · College of West Bengal · Wikipedia

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Getting to Thakurpukur

Airports

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 25 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 263 km

Stations

Joka metro station, 1.5 km · Thakurpukur metro station, 100 m · Sakher Bazar Metro Station, 1.1 km · Behala Bazar metro station, 3.9 km · Behala Chowrasta metro station, 2.6 km

• Bhubaneswar → Thakurpukur

  354 km · quickest by air, 4h 41m · ₹5,670–8,680
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• Siliguri → Thakurpukur

  472 km · quickest by air, 5h 1m · ₹6,280–9,610
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• Guwahati → Thakurpukur

  541 km · quickest by air, 5h 35m · ₹6,800–10,380
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