Organization

• Attached offices
  • Archaeological Survey of India
    Archaeological Survey of India
    The Archaeological Survey of India is a department of the Government of India, attached to the Ministry of Culture . The ASI is responsible for archaeological studies and the preservation of archaeological heritage of the country in accordance with the various acts of the Indian Parliament...
    
    
  • Central Secretariat Library
  • National Archives of India
    National Archives of India
    The National Archives of India is a repository of the non-current records of the Government of India and is holding them in trust for the use of administrators and scholars. Originally established as the 'Imperial Record Department' in 1891, in Calcutta, the then capital of British India...
    
    

• Subordinate offices
  • Anthropological Survey of India
    Anthropological Survey of India
    Anthropological Survey of India is the apex Indian organisation involved in anthropological studies and field data research for human and cultural aspects, working primarily in the fields of physical anthropology and cultural anthropology...
    
    , Kolkata
    Kolkata
    Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
    
    
  • Central Reference Library, Kolkata
    Kolkata
    Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
    
    
  • National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property, Lucknow
    Lucknow
    Lucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh in India. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of Lucknow District and Lucknow Division....
    
    
  • National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
    National Gallery of Modern Art
    The National Gallery of Modern Art is the leading Indian art gallery. The main museum at New Delhi was established on March 29, 1954 by the Government of India, with subsequent branches at Mumbai and Bangalore...
    
    
  • National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
  • National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru
  • National Library of India
    National Library of India
    The National Library of India at Belvedere, Calcutta is the second largest library in India after the Anna Centenary Library in Chennai and India's library of public record....
    
    , Kolkata
  • National Museum, New Delhi

• Autonomous organizations
  • National Mission for Manuscripts
    National Mission for Manuscripts
    The National Mission for Manuscripts is an autonomous organisation under Ministry of Culture, Government of India, established to survey, locate and conserve Indian manuscripts, with an aim to create national resource base for manuscripts, for enhancing their access, awareness and use for...
    
    , Delhi
  • Allahabad Museum, Allahabad
  • Asiatic Society
    Asiatic Society
    The Asiatic Society was founded by Sir William Jones on January 15, 1784 in a meeting presided over by Sir Robert Chambers, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at the Fort William in Calcutta, then capital of the British Raj, to enhance and further the cause of Oriental research. At the time of...
    
    , Kolkata
  • Central Institute of Buddhist Studies, Jammu and Kashmir
    Jammu and Kashmir
    Jammu and Kashmir is the northernmost state of India. It is situated mostly in the Himalayan mountains. Jammu and Kashmir shares a border with the states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab to the south and internationally with the People's Republic of China to the north and east and the...
    
    
  • Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies
    Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies
    The Central University for Tibetan Studies is a university institute founded in Sarnath, Varanasi, India in 1967, as an autonomous organization under Union Ministry of Culture.The CIHTS was founded by Pt...
    
     (CIHTS)
  • Centre for Cultural Resources and Training
    Centre for Cultural Resources and Training
    The Centre for Cultural Resources and Training is autonomous organization under Ministry of Culture of Government of India...
    
    , New Delhi
  • Delhi Public Library
    Delhi Public Library
    Delhi Public Library is a national depository library in Delhi, India, it has over 35 branches across the state.The one of the branches of the library is located on S.P. Mukherjee Marg, opposite the Old Delhi Railway Station.-History:...
    
    , Delhi
  • Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, New Delhi
  • Indian Museum
    Indian Museum
    The Indian Museum is the largest museum in India and has rare collections of antiques, armour and ornaments, fossils, skeletons, mummies, and Mughal paintings...
    
    , Kolkata
  • Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi
  • Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manava Sangrahalaya, Bhopal
  • Kalakshetra Foundation
    Kalakshetra
    Kalakshetra is a cultural academy dedicated to the preservation of traditional values in Indian art, especially in the field of Bharatanatyam dance and Gandharvaveda music. The academy was founded in January 1936 by Rukmini Devi Arundale. Under Arundale's guidance the institution achieved national...
    
    , Thiruvanmayur, Chennai
  • Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library, Patna
    Patna
    Paṭnā , is the capital of the Indian state of Bihar and the second largest city in Eastern India . Patna is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world...
    
    
  • Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
  • Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies
    Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies
    The Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata is an autonomous research institute under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, based at Calcutta...
    
     (MAKAIAS), Kolkata
  • National Council of Science Museums
    National Council of Science Museums
    National Council of Science Museums is an autonomous organization under Indian Ministry of Culture. It is the largest chain of science centers or museums under a single administrative umbrella in the world...
    
    , Kolkata
  • National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Museology (NMIHACM), Delhi
    Delhi
    Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
    
    
  • National School of Drama
    National School of Drama
    National School of Drama is a theatre training institute situated at New Delhi, India, established . It is an autonomous organization under Ministry of Culture, Government of India. It was set up in 1959 by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, and became an independent school in 1975...
    
    , New Delhi
  • Nav Nalanda Mahavihara, Nalanda
    Nalanda
    Nālandā is the name of an ancient center of higher learning in Bihar, India.The site of Nalanda is located in the Indian state of Bihar, about 55 miles south east of Patna, and was a Buddhist center of learning from the fifth or sixth century CE to 1197 CE. It has been called "one of the...
    
    , Bihar
    Bihar
    Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
    
    
  • Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi (Teen Murti Bhavan)
  • Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation, Kolkata
  • Raza Library
    Raza Library
    The Rampur Raza Library located in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, India is a repository of Indo-Islamic cultural heritage and a treasure-house of knowledge established in last decades 18th century, and built up by successive Nawabs of Rampur and now managed by Government of India.It contains very...
    
    , Rampur
    Rampur, Uttar Pradesh
    Rampur is a city and a municipality located in Rampur District in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Rampur district is located at Longitude 78-0-54 to 69-0-28 East and Latitude 28-25 to 29-10 North and spans an area of 2,367 km².It also gave its name to a former princely state of British...
    
    
  • Sahitya Akademi
    Sahitya Akademi
    The Sahitya Akademi ', India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India...
    
     (SA), New Delhi
  • Salar Jung Museum
    Salar Jung Museum
    The Salar Jung Museum is an art museum located at Darushifa, on the southern bank of the Musi river in the city of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India...
    
    , Hyderabad
  • Sangeet Natak Akademi
    Sangeet Natak Akademi
    Sangeet Natak Akademi is the national level academy for performing arts set up by the Government of India.-History:...
    
     (SNA), New Delhi
  • Saraswathi Mahal Library
    Saraswathi Mahal Library
    Saraswathi Mahal Library is located in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the oldest libraries in Asia, and has on display a rare collection of Palm leaf manuscripts and paper written in Tamil, Hindi, English, Telugu, Marathi, and a few other languages indigenous to India. The collection...
    
    , Tanjore
  • Victoria Memorial Hall
    Victoria Memorial (India)
    The Victoria Memorial, officially the Victoria Memorial Hall, is a memorial building dedicated to Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India, which is located in Kolkata, India – the capital of West Bengal and a former capital of British India. It currently serves as a museum and a...
    
    , Kolkata
  • Zonal Cultural Centers (based on Cultural Zones of India
    Cultural Zones of India
    The Cultural Zones of India are seven overlapping zones defined by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of India to promote and preserve the cultural heritage of various regions of India. Each of these zones has been provided with a zonal centre...
    
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    • Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre, Kolkata
      Kolkata
      Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
      
      
    • North Central Zone Cultural Centre, Allahabad
      Allahabad
      Allahabad , or Settled by God in Persian, is a major city of India and is one of the main holy cities of Hinduism. It was renamed by the Mughals from the ancient name of Prayaga , and is by some accounts the second-oldest city in India. It is located in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh,...
      
      
    • North East Zone Cultural Centre
    • North Zone Cultural Centre
      North Zone Cultural Centre
      North Zone Culture Centre or NZCC in Patiala in Punjab state was first amongst several regional cultural centres established by Government of India to preserve and promote arts, crafts, traditions and cultural heritage of India....
      
      
    • South Central Zone Cultural Centre, Nagpur
      Nagpur
      Nāgpur is a city and winter capital of the state of Maharashtra, the largest city in central India and third largest city in Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune...
      
      
    • South Zone Culture Centre
      South Zone Culture Centre
      South Zone Culture Centre in Tanjavur in Tamil Nadu state is one of many regional cultural centres established by Indian Government to preserve and promote traditional cultural heritage of India. The current Chairman of the SZCC is His Excellency the Governor of Tamil Nadu, Shri.Surjit Singh Barnala...
      
      , Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu
      Tamil Nadu
      Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...
      
      
    • West Zone Cultural Centre
      West Zone Cultural Centre
      West Zone Culture Centre in Udaipur in Rajasthan state is one of many regional cultural centres established by Indian Government to preserve and promote traditional cultural heritage of India...