📍 Heritage📍 Museum📍 Memorial

Jorasanko Thakur Bari

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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Overview

The ancestral mansion where Rabindranath Tagore was born and died, now a museum of the Tagore family's world.

Why visit: Walk the corridors that shaped India's first Nobel laureate.

Things to do

›Tagore's birth and death rooms
›Family galleries
›Light-and-sound evening

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–Mar; Poila Boishakh

Entry fee

₹30

Hours

10:30 AM – 5:00 PM (closed Mon)

Est. budget

₹100–300

Duration

2 hrs

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