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'''Asutosh Museum of Indian Art''' is an art museum located in the main campus of [[University of Calcutta]] on [[College Street, Kolkata|College Street]], [[Kolkata]] (previously Calcutta), [[India]]. Established in 1937, it is the first public museum in any University in India.<ref name=CUpage>{{cite web<br />
|url=http://www.caluniv.ac.in/museum/museum_frame.htm <br />
|title=Asutosh Museum of Indian Art <br />
|accessdate=2007-04-05 <br />
|work=Museum <br />
|publisher=University of Calcutta <br />
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|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070204100711/http://www.caluniv.ac.in/museum/museum_frame.htm <br />
|archivedate=2007-02-04 <br />
}}</ref> The university museum is named after Sir [[Ashutosh Mukherjee]] who was the Vice-Chancellor of the university for four consecutive two-year terms (1906–1914) and a fifth two-year term (1921–23). The objective of the museum was to collect and preserve specimens of various phases of [[Indian art]] with special emphasis on the art of [[Bengal school of art|Bengal]].<ref name=bpedia>{{cite book |last=Goswami |first=Niranjan |year=2012 |chapter=Asutosh Museum of Indian Art |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Asutosh_Museum_of_Indian_Art |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref><br />
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