National Agricultural Science Museum

National Agricultural Science Museum (NASM), situated in the National Agricultural Science Centre campus of ICAR in, Pusa, todapur Village, New Delhi, is the first of its kind in the country. Agriculture and animal husbandry have been the backbone of Indian economy since prehistoric time. Even today, about 65% of the Indian population directly or indirectly lives on Agriculture. Agriculture has also shaped the literature, creed and culture of the Indian Society. The rich agricultural wealth of the country attracted hoards of migrants to arrive and settle in India.

Ancient literature and archaeological excavations have provided us with innumerable evidences of agricultural practices in ancient and medieval India. The story of agriculture is the story of Indian society. This story has been documented in a popular form at the National Agricultural Science Museum

The National Rail Museum is a museum in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi which focuses on the rail heritage of India it opened on the 1 February 1977. It is located in over 10 acres (40,000 m2) of land with both indoor and outdoor exhibits. A toy train offers rides around its site on regular days.

It also has some other attractions like the Vice Regal Dining Car, the luxury Prince of Wales Saloon, Maharaja of Baroda's Saloon and Maharaja of Mysore's Saloon. Some of the trains are as old as 100 years and one of the first steam engines which arrived in the Indian Subcontinent is also displayed in this museum.

This museum covers a campus of more than 10 acres and rides are available for children in the toy train that run within the campus.

International Dolls Museum was established in 1957 for displaying the unusual and best dolls from across the world. There are around 6,500 dolls from about 85 countries that are on display in this museum. The two different sections of the museum include Indian and Asian dolls and the second section has dolls from UK, Russia, Thailand, South Korea, Mexico, Poland and Greece.

The themes of dolls are very unique like Japanese Kabuki dancer and man on the moon. This museum was set up by a renowned political cartoonist, K. Shankar Pillai (1902–1989). It is popularly known as Shankar's International Dolls Museum and is housed inside the building of the Children's Book Trust in New Delhi.

It was functional by 1965 and was inaugurated by the then President of India, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan. The museum started with a thousand dolls, which was later increased with another 5 thousand from 1965 to 1987.

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