Rabindranath Tagore: Short Stories

Museums

Jorasanko Thakur Bari, Kolkata; the room in which Tagore died in 1941.

There are eight Tagore museums, three in India and five in Bangladesh:

  • Rabindra Bharati Museum, at Jorasanko Thakur Bari, Kolkata, India
  • Tagore Memorial Museum, at Shilaidaha Kuthibadi, Shilaidaha, Bangladesh
  • Rabindra Memorial Museum at Shahzadpur Kachharibari, Shahzadpur, Bangladesh
  • Rabindra Bhavan Museum, in Santiniketan, India
  • Rabindra Museum, in Mungpoo, near Kalimpong, India
  • Patisar Rabindra Kacharibari, Patisar, Atrai, Naogaon, Bangladesh
  • Pithavoge Rabindra Memorial Complex, Pithavoge, Rupsha, Khulna, Bangladesh
  • Rabindra Complex, Dakkhindihi village, Phultala Upazila, Khulna, Bangladesh

Jorasanko Thakur Bari (Bengali: House of the Thakurs; anglicised to Tagore) in Jorasanko, north of Kolkata, is the ancestral home of the Tagore family. It is currently located on the Rabindra Bharati University campus at 6/4 Dwarakanath Tagore Lane[187] Jorasanko, Kolkata 700007.[188] It is the house in which Tagore was born, and also the place where he spent most of his childhood and where he died on 7 August 1941.


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