Currency Building

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Ghare Baire at the Currency Building, a museum exhibition featuring three centuries of art from Bengal. Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Home to the Reserve Bank of India until 1937, the stabilized ruins of the once-magnificent Currency Building now houses a small exhibition about the Archaeological Survey of India. There's a small bookshop of the organization's publications within the building. Walk through to see the now cleaned and stabilized buttress remnants of former domes, that look as though the place had suffered an earthquake or war rather than simple neglect.

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