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Visakha Museum
Located on the shores of the Ramakrishna beach, Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation
museum has historical treasures and artifacts of the region. The museum is housed
in 150 year old architecturally impressive Dutch Bungalow. It was opened in
1991. The collections in the museum include ancient armory, crockery, coins,
silk costumes, jewelry, stuffed animals, portraits, Shell of an unexploded bomb
dropped by the Japanese during World War II, manuscripts, letters, diaries,
scrap books as well as periodicals, maps etc which chronicle the lives of the
early settlers.
Submarine
Museum
INS Kurusura, a Russian built forth submarine of the Indian Navy was turned
to a museum on 27th Feb 2001. It had been in use by the Indian Defence since
its arrival in Vizag in 1970. The Submarine was brought from the sea, to the
sands of the Ramakrisna Beach and
positioned on concrete foundation to set up as a museum. The museum is the first
of its kind in Asia and second in the world. It has been established with the
aim to create awareness among the public to know how the submarines work during
wartime and for show casing the life inside the submarine, etc. It is opens
for public from 9 am to 9 pm.
Anthropology Museum
The department of Anthropology in the Andhra University has its own specialised
anthropology Museum. The museum was established in the year 1961.
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