Forest Research Institute Museum - Dehradun
Forest Research Institute Museum - Private Transfers
Set in a peaceful 5-sq-km park, this grand remnant of the Raj era – where most of India’s forest officers are trained – is larger than Buckingham Palace. Built between 1924 and 1929, this red-brick colossus has Mughal towers, perfectly formed arches and porticos, and Roman columns in a series of quadrangles edged by elegant cloisters. Six huge halls have dusty displays on Indian forestry that look like leftovers from a middle-school science fair.
Highlights
- Set in a peaceful 5-sq-km park, this grand remnant of the Raj era, is larger than Buckingham Palace
- In the museums you'll find beautiful animal, bird and plant paintings by Afshan Zaidi, exhibits on the medicinal uses of trees
- A cross-section of a 700-year-old deodar tree
- There are five sections in the museum-
- Pathology Museum - Forest Pathology museum houses 900 exhibits of various economically important tree diseases and timber decays. Exhibits are arranged on the basis of two broad host groups: hardwood and conifers.
- Silviculture Museum - The Silviculture Museum Gallery showcases the evolution of forestry in India, importance of forests, threats to forests like Deforestation, Forest Fire, Shifting Cultivation, Invasive Plants, Adverse Climatic Factors, Insect Pests and Diseases, through creatively designed informative panels.
- Timber Museum - The Timber Museum has exhibits of the best-known and most common commercial woods. One hundred and twenty six commercially important species displayed along the walls of the museum provide the visitors an idea on the characteristics of these woods.
- Non-Wood Forest Products Museum - An exhibit of this museum shows a comparison between the conventional resin tapping technique and the newly developed rill method for resin tapping.
- Entomology Museum -This museum contains about 3,000 exhibits representing the various stages of insect pests and the nature of damage caused by them to seed, seedlings, standing trees, felled timbers, bamboos and also finished products.
Inclusions
- Round trip private transfers from around Dehradun
- Entry to Forest Research Institute Museum
Exclusions
- Anything that is not mentioned in inclusions
Hotel Pickup Instructions
- Pick-up from hotels around Dehradun
- Drop-off to hotels around Dehradun
Itinerary
- Pick-up from hotels around Dehradun
- Visit Forest Research Institute Museum
- Spend the day exploring.
- Drop to hotels around Dehradun
