Museums

Museums

Port Blair is home to some brilliant and nicely maintained museums. The most famous is the Anthropological Museum that is situated at Haddo in the northern part of Port Blair. Set up in the year 1975, the museum has put on sidplay tribal artifacts, such as boats, waepons, basket, clothing, photographs, models and records of expeditions carried out in Andaman and Nicobar islands. There is also a library which has stock of some famous publications related to tribal culture in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Then there is a museum called Samudrika museum which is maintained by Indian Navy. Samudrika is divided into five categories, history of the islands, the people of these islands, marine life, archeology, and the geography if islands. Also visit the Forest Museum and Fisheries museum.