thumb|Het Indian Museum in Calcutta, opgericht in 1814, is het oudste en grootste museum van India, met een collectie van 102.646 objecten (2004)Comptroller & Auditor General of India report No. 4 of 2005 (Civil) of Chapter III: Ministry of Culture, p. 31 thumb|National Museum, New Delhi, opgericht in 1949, is een van de grootste van het land met een collectie van meer dan 200.000 objecten thumb|Salarjung Museum, Hyderabad Hieronder volgt een lijst van musea in India, gesorteerd naar de deelstaten en unieterritoria.
Andamanen en Nicobaren Zonal Anthropological Museum, Anthropological Survey of India, A and N regional center. Portblair.
Andhra Pradesh INS Kursura (S20), Visakhapatnam Visakha Museum, Visakhapatnam Swarna Jyoti Museum Naval Museum, Visakhapatnam Tribal Museum, Araku Valley Victoria Jubilee Museum, Vijayawada Amaravathi museum, Amaravathi Buddhist Museum, Nagarjunakonda Bhagwan Mahavir Government Museum, Kadapa Sri Venkateswara Museum, Tirupati
Arunachal Pradesh Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, Itanagar
Assam Assam State Museum, Guwahati Mayong Central Museum and Emporium, Mayong Shankardev Kalakshetra, Guwahati Regional Science Centre, Guwahati
Bihar miniatuur|Patna Museum, Patna opgericht in 1917
Chandigarh miniatuur|Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh miniatuur|www.designmuseum.in DesignMuseum, Bilaspur Manav Sangrahalya Jagdalpur
Dadra en Nagar Haveli en Daman en Diu
Delhi miniatuur|National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, New Delhi Indian Air Force Museum, Palam, Delhi Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum, New Delhi National Gandhi Museum, New Delhi Gandhi Smriti, New Delhi National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, New Delhi National Museum, New Delhi National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi National Rail Museum, New Delhi National Science Centre, Delhi Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi Parliament Museum, New Delhi Teen Murti Bhavan, New Delhi Sanskriti Kendra Museum, Delhi Shankar's International Dolls Museum, Delhi Sulabh International Museum of Toilets, New Delhi
Goa Goa Chitra Museum, Benaulim Goa Science Centre, Panaji Goa State Museum, Panaji Naval Aviation Museum (India), Vasco da Gama
Gujarat miniatuur|Baroda Museum & Picture Gallery, Vadodara established in 1894 The Sardar Patel Museum, Surat Baroda Museum & Picture Gallery, Vadodara Calico Museum of Textiles, Ahmedabad Conflictorium, Museum of Conflict, Ahmedabad Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya, Ahmedabad Gujarat Science City, Ahmedabad Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum, Ahmedabad Kaba Gandhi No Delo, Rajkot Kirti Mandir, Porbandar Kutch Museum, Bhuj Maharaja Fateh Singh Museum, Vadodara Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad Sanskar Kendra, Ahmedabad Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Memorial, Ahmedabad Swaminarayan Museum, Ahmedabad Watson Museum, Rajkot LLDC - Living & Learning Design Centre - Craft Museum, Bhuj-Kutch
Haryana Dharohar, een museum in Kurukshetra University met duizenden objecten met betrekking tot het leven en de cultuur van de mensen in Haryana.
Himachal Pradesh miniatuur|Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamshala, opgericht in 1970 Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala Shivalik Fossil Park, Saketi
Jammu en Kasjmir Munshi Aziz Bhat Museum of Central Asian and Kargil Trade Artifacts Dogra Art Museum, Jammu Meeras Mahal Museum
Jharkhand Ranchi Science Centre, Ranchi State Museum Hotwar, Jharkhandhttps://web.archive.org/web/20161023175009/http://www.statemuseumranchi.in/
Karnataka
Kerala miniatuur|Napier Museum, Thiruvananthapuram (1855) miniatuur|8 Point Art Cafe and Museum in Kollam(Quilon) 8 Point Art Cafe, Kollam Arakkal Museum, Ayikkara Teak Museum, Nilambur Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Police Museum, Kollam Krishnapuram Palace, Kayamkulam Indo-Portuguese Museum, Kochi Vallathol Museum, Thrissur Mural Art Museum, Thrissur Archaeological Museum, Thrissur, Thrissur Vaidyaratnam Ayurveda Museum, Thrissur Indian Business Museum, Kozhikode Kerala Soil Museum, Thiruvananthapuram Napier Museum, Thiruvananthapuram Pazhassi Raja Archaeological Museum, Kozhikode Wayanad Heritage Museum, Ambalavayal Hill Palace, Thrippunithura
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Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra miniatuur|Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (voorheen het Prince of Walesmuseum) (1922) Antarang – Sex Health Information Art Gallery, Mumbai The Arts Trust – Institute of Contemporary Indian Art, Mumbai Ballard Bunder Gatehouse, Mumbai Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History, Ahead of Marathwada Institute,Gulabhari Vasti, Wadgaon Shinde Road, Pune - 411 047 Cavalry Tank Museum, Ahmednagar Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai Cowasji Jehangir Hall, Mumbai Darshan Museum, Pune Gandhi Research Foundation, Gandhi Teerth, Khoj Gandhi Ki Museum, Jalgaon Indian Institute for Research in Numismatic Studies, Nashik Joshi's Museum of Miniature Railway, Pune Mahatma Phule Museum, Pune Mani Bhavan, Mumbai Nagpur Central Museum Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai Piramal Museum of Art, Mumbai (Privémuseum met kunst) Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum, Pune Raman Science Centre, Nagpur Siddhagiri Gramjivan Museum (Kaneri Math), Kolhapur Shree Chhatrapati Shahu Museum, Kolhapur National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
Manipur
Meghalaya Don Bosco Museum
Mizoram Mizoram State Museum Lunglei District Museum
Nagaland Nagaland state museum WW-II museum - in Kisama
Odisha miniatuur|Odisha State Museum Odisha State Museum Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhubaneswar Tribal Research Institute Museum Odisha Ancient Sea Trade Museum, Cuttack
Puducherry Pondicherry Museum
Punjab miniatuur|Virasat-e-Khalsa, een museum uit 2011 over sikhisme National Institute of Sports, Patiala Sanghol Museum, Sanghol Sikh Ajaibghar, Balongi Virasat-e-Khalsa, Anandpur Sahib Central Sikh Museum, Amritsarhttps://web.archive.org/web/20161206073933/http://goldentempleamritsar.org/places-to-visit-in-golden-temple-amritsar/Central-Sikh-Museum.php
Rajasthan
Sikkim Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok
Tamil Nadu miniatuur|Chennai Rail Museum miniatuur|Government Museum, Chennai, c. 1905 Chennai Railway Museum, Chennai Gandhi Memorial Museum, Madurai Gass Forest Museum, Coimbatore Government Museum, Chennai Government Museum, Cuddalore Government Museum, Karur Government Museum, Pudukkottai Government Museum, Tiruchirappalli INS Vela (S40) Mahakavi Bharathi Memorial Library, Erode Railway Heritage Centre, Tiruchirappalli Saraswathi Mahal Library, Thanjavur Vivekanandar Illam, Chennai Government Museum, Salem miniatuur|Telangana State Archaeology Museum, Hyderabad (1930) .
Telangana Alampur Museum Telangana State Archaeology Museum, Hyderabad Birla Science Museum, Hyderabad City Museum, Hyderabad Nizam Museum, Hyderabad Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad Veiled Rebecca of Salar Jung Museum
Tripura miniatuur|200x200px|Ujjayanta palace Tripura State Museum, Ujjayanta palace, Agartala
Uttar Pradesh miniatuur|Swaraj Bhavan, Allahabad, opgericht als museum in 1970. Allahabad Museum, Allahabad Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences, Aligarh Kanpur Sangrahalaya, Kanpur Government Museum, Mathura Rashtriya Dalit Prerna Sthal and Green Garden, Noida Sarnath Museum, Sarnath Swaraj Bhavan (old Anand Bhavan), Allahabad
Uttarakhand Forest Research Institute, Dehradun Zonal Anthropological Museum, Anthropological Survey of India, Mathpal's Museum and Art Gallery, Geetadham, Bhimtal (Nainital) HIMANI Nature Museum, Geetadham, Bhimtal (Nainital) miniatuur|Victoria Memorial, Calcutta (1921)
West-Bengalen Indian Museum, Kolkata Victoria Memorial, Kolkata Sabarna Sangrahashala, Kolkata Asutosh Museum of Indian Art, Kolkata Birla Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata State Archaeological Gallery, Kolkata KMOMA, Kolkata Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata Gurusaday Museum, Kolkata Jorasanko Thakur Bari, Kolkata Marble Palace, Kolkata Zonal Anthropological Museum, Salt Lake Kolkata.
Musea in het West-Bengaalse district Murshidabad Hazarduari Palace Museum, Murshidabad (Owner - Archaeological Survey of India, & Govt. of West Bengal) Kathgola Bagan Palace Museum, Murshidabad Jagatseth Palace Museum, Murshidabad Wasif Manjil (New Palace) Museum, Murshidabad Murshidabad Zilla Museum, Jiaganj, Murshidabad (Owner - Govt. of West Bengal) Nashipur Rajbari Museum & Art Gallery, Murshidabad Cossimbazar Choto Rajbari Museum, Berhampore, Murshidabad
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