Netaji Bhawan in Kolkata is the ancestral house of freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose. The Netaji Museum, established here in 1961 by the Netaji Research Bureau, is a full-fledged biographical museum organised on the basis of a vast amount of materials relating to Netaji, collected from all parts of the world. The Bureau, since its inception in 1957, has by devoted study, research and enquiry, helped to reveal Netaji’s life of profound experience and superhuman struggle and to revive and resurrect his fundamental message and teachings. The museum, library and archives are recognised as the first and one of the best of their kind. Seminars, lectures and cultural programs of international character are held here.

About the collection: The collection comprises personal belongings, photographs, documents and articles relating to Netaji’s life. Books, periodicals, and documents covering the entire freedom movement of India since 1857 as well as national liberation and revolutionary movements in other parts of the world, make up the Freedom Library. The archives of the Bureau now consist of almost all works of and on Netaji in various languages, a large collection of his letters covering his entire life, an extensive compilation of his speeches and writing and journals, newapapers and other source material relating to Netaji. Since 1962, the Bureau has published over sixty major works in English, Bengali and Hindi. Netaji’s Collected Works have been published in ten volumes. Films and voice and music tapes also constitute a major part of the archives. The Bureau has made documentary film on Netaji and assisted with advice and material the making of others.