India Seashell Museum

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Visit Duration: 2 Hr

Timings: 8 am to 8 pm every day.

Entry type: Paid

Entry Fee: 100

Entry Details: Paid

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Located in the southernmost part of India, in a small town situated in the southeastern part of Tamil Nadu, The Sea Shell Museum in Mahabalipuram is a storehouse of seashells and shells from all over the world. It has more than 40,000 seashells and shells. Apart from that it also has a shopping area named "Maya Bazaar", there is also a seafood restaurant and a beautiful aquarium in its compound.

Highlights of India Seashell Museum

The India Sea Shell Museum holds some of the rarest to most unique shells from all over the world. It has more than 40,000 varieties of shells and seashells, various types of oysters, and other aquarian creatures. The seashells and shells are collected by a single individual Mr. Raja Mohamed. He started collecting them in 1970 and the collection started growing since then. Now it is India's first and Asia's biggest seashell museum.

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Points Of Interest for India Seashell Museum

The Indian Seashell Museum is located in Mahabalipuram. Mahabalipuram is famous for its temples and caves which are built back in the 7th and 8th centuries. Mahabalipuram is a seaside town in Chengalpattu District in Tamil Nadu, which has many monuments listed on the UNESCO world heritage list.

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Mahabalipuram, also known as Mamallapuram is situated between the Bay of Bengal and the Great Salt Lake. Some of the top attractions in Mahabalipuram are:

Krishna's Butter Ball: It is a huge granite boulder of rock with just the tip of it touching a steeply inclined surface, which depicts it as if it is going to fall any time
Pancha Rathas: Pancha(five) Rathas are one of the earliest monuments of their type in India. The five rathas are Draupadi Ratha, Arjuna Ratha, Bhima Ratha, Dharmaraja Ratha, and Nakula-Sahadeva Ratha.
Shore Temple: It is one of the oldest temples in Tamil Nadu, South India.
Mahishasuramardini Cave: It is a rock cut-out cave temple it is also known as the Mahishamardini mandapa.