Museums in Tamilnadu

The recent excavations at keezhadi has brought to the general public – the awareness about importance of museums. It was a surprise to me that there are a number of museums already available in tamilnadu, the recent one being the fossil museum at ariyalur opened by Tamilnadu Chief Minister in 2019. In this post I collected the list of museums from various sources and presented below. The list excludes museums in Chennai which are well known to the general public.

1	Government museum	kanyakumari	https://kanyakumaritourism.in/government-museum-kanyakumari
2	wax museum	kanyakumari	https://kanyakumaritourism.in/mayapuri-wonder-wax-kanyakumari
3	Wandering monk museum	kanyakumari	https://kanyakumaritourism.in/the-wandering-monk-museum-kanyakumari
4	government museum	tirunelveli	https://tirunelveli.nic.in/government-museum/
5	government museum	Ramanathapuram
6	ramalinga vilas palace museum	Ramanathapuram	https://www.tnarch.gov.in/ramalinga-vilasam-site-museum-ramanathapuram
7	mahakavi subramaniya bharathiyar museum	Ramanathapuram
8	abdul kalam museum	Ramanathapuram	https://ramanathapuram.nic.in/tourist-place/dr-apj-abdul-kalams-memorial/
9	electronic moving statue museum	Ramanathapuram
10	vivekananda museum	Ramanathapuram
11	cmfri marine museum	Ramanathapuram	http://www.cmfri.org.in/museum
12	government museum	virudhunagar
13	district museum	sivagangai
14	government museum	Madurai	http://www.madurai.com/places/madurai-government-museum/
15	Gandhi memorial museum	Madurai	https://maduraitourism.co.in/gandhi-memorial-museum-madurai
16	Government museum	pudukottai	https://pudukkottai.nic.in/museum/
17	shenbaganur museum	dindigul	https://kodaikanaltourism.co.in/shenbaganur-museum-kodaikanal
18	wax museum	dindigul	https://www.tourtravelworld.com/india/kodaikanal/kodaikanal-wax-museum.htm
19	Gass forest museum	Coimbatore
20	Gedee car museum	Coimbatore	http://gedeecarmuseum.com/
21	GD naidu science museum	Coimbatore
22	Textile museum	Coimbatore	https://www.kasthurisreenivasanartgallery.com/textile-museum/
23	Government museum	Coimbatore
24	Rosary museum	Coimbatore
25	Insect museum	Coimbatore	http://tnau.ac.in/insect_museum/index.html
26	Tamilnadu police museum	Coimbatore	http://tnpmcbe.in/
27	Science centre and museum	Coimbatore
28	Ancient industrial artifacts museum	Coimbatore	http://www.tninfodirectory.com/company/ancient-industrial-artifacts-museum-coimbatore/21518
29	Government museum	Erode	https://erode.nic.in/tourist-place/government-museum-erode/
30	Hero stones site museum	Dharmapuri	https://www.tnarch.gov.in/hero-stones-site-museum-dharmapuri
31	Archaeological museum	Krishnagiri	https://krishnagiri.nic.in/tourist-place/krishnagiri-museum/
32	Government museum-1	Kanchipuram
33	Government museum-2	Kanchipuram
34	Kanchi kudil	Kanchipuram
35	Yogi ramana surathkumar home museum	Tiruvannamalai
36	Government museum	Salem
37	Archaeological museum	Vellore	https://vellore.nic.in/archaeological-survey-of-india-asi-museum/
38	National fossil wood park	villupuram
39	Archaeological museum	Nagapatinam
40	Dutch museum	Nagapatinam
41	Silapathikaram art gallery	Nagapatinam
42	Royal palace museum	Thanjavur
43	Raja rajan site museum	Thanjavur
44	Art gallery	Thanjavur
45	Tamil university museum	Thanjavur
46	District museum	Tiruchy
47	Rail museum	Tiruchy
48	Kalanjiyam collections – heritage museum	Tiruchy
49	National fossil wood park, sathanur	perambalur	https://perambalur.nic.in/tourist-place/fossil-tree/
50	Temple museum	Tiruvarur
51	Government museum	Karur
52	Karuvoor chera archaeological site museum	Karur	https://www.tnarch.gov.in/chera-site-museum-karur
53	Vasuki impex- handicraft museum	Karur
54	Government museum	Cuddalore
55	Wax world museum	Nilgiris
56	Government museum	Nilgiris
57	Mini car museum	Nilgiris
58	Mini mask museum	Nilgiris	https://nilgiris.nic.in/tourist-place/tribal-museum/
59	tea museum	Nilgiris
60	chocolate museum	Nilgiris

Links/ Details are not available for many museums. In case any of the readers have blogged please comment.