Heritage Transport Museum, Gurgaon

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Heritage Transport Museum
Heritage Transport Museum, Gurgaon
Established2013
LocationTauru, Nuh district, Haryana, India
Type Transportation museum
CollectionsAutomobile Gallery, Pre-mechanised Transportation, Heavy Mechanised Transportation, Railways, Aviation, Rural Transportation, Two-Wheelers, Collectible India Toys on Transport, Historical Collections, Maritime Gallery, Contemporary Art Gallery, Tribal Art

The Heritage Transport Museum is India's major museum dealing with the history of human transportation. It is located at Tauru (Taoru) in the Nuh district of the state of Haryana. [1] The collection focuses on the development of transport in India. [2] It is situated on 3.01 acres and has 95,000 square feet of exhibition galleries. [2] When it opened in 2013 it became India's largest private museum. [3]

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Organization

The museum is laid out in twelve collections: [1]

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 "Heritage Transport Museum Manesar Gurgaon".
  2. 1 2 "Heritage Transport Museum". TripAdvisor.
  3. Kumar, Tanuj (30 March 2018). "Heritage Transport Museum: a museum with a difference". LiveMint. Archived from the original on 22 April 2018.

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