Pune City Guide
Guides to the Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum on Bajirao Road — visitor guide, hidden gems, Mastani Mahal and the life of Raja Dinkar Kelkar.
Kelkar Museum Pune is one of those places that almost everyone who visits leaves saying the same thing: why does no one talk about this? The Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum on Bajirao Road holds over 20,000 objects collected by one man across six decades of travel across India. A suit of armour made from crocodile … Read more
Raja Dinkar Kelkar was not a king, not a wealthy industrialist, not a colonial administrator. He was a middle-class Pune resident who, following the death of his young son, spent sixty years collecting the objects of Indian daily life that everyone else considered too ordinary to preserve — and then gave all of it away. … Read more
Kelkar Museum Pune has a problem that the best museums sometimes have: it contains so much that visitors move through too quickly, seeing the collection but not seeing it. A visitor who spends 45 minutes at kelkar museum pune things to see has technically visited. A visitor who spends 2.5 hours has had an entirely … Read more
The Mastani Mahal Pune is one of those heritage discoveries that most visitors to Pune do not know exists until they are standing inside it — and then cannot quite believe they did not know. At the Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum on Bajirao Road, on the second floor, there is a room assembled from the … Read more
Kelkar Museum Pune is one of those places that almost everyone who visits leaves saying the same thing: why does no one talk about this? The Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum on Bajirao Road holds over 20,000 objects collected by one man across six decades of travel across India. A suit of armour made from crocodile … Read more