Visakha Museum — Attraction in Andhra Pradesh

Visakhapatnam is a popular tourist destination with a history dated back to 260 BC. Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation Museum, more popularly known as the Visakha Museum has taken the huge task of preserving the records of the great history of Vizag city.

Situated on the RK beach road, Visakha museum attracts a huge number of tourists thronging this place to see the historical treasures and artifacts of the Kalinga Andhra region. Once a ruined Dutch bungalow on the beach road, it was renovated and turned into a Museum of great importance.

Visakha museum has a huge collection of items related to the port city of Vizag as well as historical items presented by other countries. Portraits of the royal family members of Vizianagaram and Bobbili, armour suits, spears and muzzle loading guns, weapons such as steel bows, Handguns and revolvers,daggers and swords, helmets of Greek/Roman and Viking, stuffed animals, crockery, coins, silk costumes, manuscripts, diaries, scrapbooks, and maps are some of the rare collections preserved in this museum.

Along with this, the museum has many models of planes, warships and submarines. The museum also houses the shell of a 250-lb unexploded bomb dropped by Japanese during the...

Located near RK beach, this place generally is included in ‘places to visit in Vizag’ list. There is no dedicated parking space, need to find a roadside parking. Entry ticket is 10 rs for adults and 05 rs for children. The museum has got two parts - a naval maritime museum and another museum is Visakhapatnam district museum. Photography is prohibited, so couldn’t capture the display which is inside the museums. The maritime museum is worth visit where you’ll be able to go through rich naval history of Visakhapatnam as well as interesting details of Indian Naval fleet and exhibits, photographs depicting Naval warfare. The other part of the museum is disappointing. Although the three storied museum dedicates itself to bring out rich cultural heritage of Andhra Pradesh and Telengana, but it is poorly maintained. Lack of guide and improper display of artefacts also fail to generate curiosity amongst visitors. Personally felt that the staffs are pretty less aware of the the exhibits and their historical value. Overall verdict- good for only one time visit if you get some extra time in...

Vishaka Museum Visakhapatnam has volumes of history to talk about. But the credit of preserving records about the Visakhapatnam’s past goes to the Visakha Museum, also called Corporation Museum. The Visakha Museum is located at an Old Dutch Bungalow on the RK Beach Road. The Museum has some of the best and finest artistic items put on display. Portraits, some of them even at life-size depicting the members of the Royal family of the Vizianagaram and Bobbili, Two Armour suits, two stands of spears and muzzleloading guns, several ancient weapons such as steel bows, handguns that date back to the British-rule one should not miss. The Visakha Museum also showcases some of the artifacts collected from other institutions. These include the 250-lb bomb that was dropped by the Japanese during the World War II. The shell bomb did not however explode. The shell bomb is now put on display at the Museum. The Museum preserves the coconut that was broken by the then Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru when he came for the inauguration of the first ship that was indigenously built – the...