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Tollygunge Club
Tollygunge
Only members and their guests are allowed. Visitors may have to make prior arrangements.
about 20 min drive from Chowringhee Road (Esplanade)

The Tollygunge Club is one of the oldest clubs and a famous colonial relic, housing a golf course, horse riding facilities, and accommodations etc.

Mother Theresa's Hospital

The hospital for the destitute is just next door to the Kalighat temple. If you are bold, have a look into the building to see the people lying in big dormitories and being cared for by some Sisters.

Alipore Zoo
Royal Calcutta Golf Club
18, Golf Club Road

The oldest golf club in the world after St. Andrews in Scotland.

CIMA Art Gallery
Sunny Towers, 43 Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue, Kolkata-700 019
(91) 33 2485 8717 / 2485 8509
free
Mon: 3PM-7PM; Tu-Sat: 11AM-7PM
close to the Birla Temple

The "Centre of International Modern Art" is a small museum showing modern artworks.

Birla Industrial & Technological Museum
19A, Gurusaday Road, Kolkata - 700 019
033 22877241/2/3
Rs. 15; special presentations are charged extra
daily 10AM-5.30PM

is a modern museum with lots of interesting artifacts, shows, events and activities, primarily popular with school-going children. The exhibitions, many of them demanding you to take an active part, can compete with one you could visit in countries like the United States.

Ramakrishna Mission Institute
Golpark

Houses a bookstore and a library, among other amenities, with books written by and about Swami Vivekananda and Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa, ...

Tollywood

the home of Bengali Films and Television centre are also found in Tollygunge.

National Library of India
Belvedere Road, Alipore
(+91) 33-24791381
9AM-8PM; Sat, Sun, holidays: 9.30AM-6PM

Oldest Library in India with a huge collection, including some rarities.

Rabindra Sarovar

is a large open lake and park area housing boating clubs, an open air theatre and eateries.

Kalighat Temple

Houses Kolkata's patron deity. The temple also got famous because Mother Theresa opened her first dying home next to the temple.

Birla Temple
5.30AM to 11AM and 4.30PM to 9PM

The most modernly-opulent in Kolkata and worth a visit. The adjoining tree-lined lane Queen's Park is the most exclusive and fashionable address in the city and is worth a stroll through. Some of the biggest names in the city call it home. A close second is Sunny Park, running parallel to Queen's Park on the other side of the Birla Temple.