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List of museums in and around Bhubaneswar

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Following is a list of museums and ASI ticketed monuments in and around Bhubaneswar:

Odisha State Museum, Bhubaneswar. (branch museums at: Puri, Dhenkanal, Salipur, Khiching, Baripada, Balasore, Nuapara, Bhawanipatna, Balangir, Jeypore, Baragarh and Koraput)
Museum of Tribal Arts and Artifacts, Bhubaneswar.
Regional Museum of Natural History (RMNH), Bhubaneswar.
Regional Science Center, Bhubaneswar
Handloom and Handicrafts museum, Bhubaneswar (being set up)
ASI Museum in Konark.
ASI Museum in Ratnagiri.
ASI Museum in Lalitgiri (being constructed)
ASI Ticketed Monuments (Konark, Udaygiri and Khandagiri caves, Rajarani temple, Lalitgiri, Ratnagiri)
Srikhetra Culture Museum, Puri (being constructed)
Dhenkanal Science Center. (Kapilas Science Park.)

Following is a list of live museums in and around Bhubaneswar:

Nandan Kanan, Barang
State Botanical Garden, Barang
Regional Plant Resource Center (Ekamra Kanan), Bhubaneswar (with a cactus garden, arboretum, orchidarium, bamboosetum, wild fruit garden and palmetum)
Medicinal plant garden, Patrapada, Bhubaneswar
Jayadev Vatika, Kenduvila (30 kms from Bhubaneswar)
Jayadev batika at Khandagiri.
Ekamra Vana (Medicinal plant garden), around Bindu sagar lake, Bhubaenswar
Various parks in Bhubaneswar.
Aquarium at Nandan Kanan.
Aquarium at CIFA, Bhubaneswar
Aquarium, Puri (planned)

Others:

Sudarshan Sand art institute, Puri.
Raghurajpur artisan village.

Odisha government’s plan for Buddhist tourism in Jajpur

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Following is an excerpt from a report Akshay Rout in Pioneer.

To attract more tourists to Langudi, Kaima, Neulipur, Tarapur and other hills in Jajpur district, the State Government would spend Rs 14 crore in four years, said Secretary of Tourism and Culture Department Ashok Tripathy while he, along with other senior officials, visited these Buddhist sites on Saturday.

For an archeological hotspot, Langudi wears the tag of obscurity well. Located in Dharmasala tehsil, it is a sleepy hamlet with a sparse population. But things could change, thanks to the discovery of a Buddhist Stupa along with many images of different postures of Lord Buddha. Langudi hit the headlines eight years ago when several senior historians and archaeologists considered it as the Puspagiri, as described the famous Chinese traveller Huein Tsang. However, few tourists have since ventured into this remote hamlet for a view of the artifacts. But the government would spend money to develop the Buddhist site, said Tripathy.

Targeting Buddhist tourism in Jajpur, the Government is going to launch a Buddhist Circuit involving primary pilgrimage places associated with the life and teachings of Lord Buddha. Lalitagiri, Ratnagiri, Udayagiri, Langudi, Kaima and Neulipur are the primary pilgrimage places along with numerous other sites, where Buddha and the saints travelled, would be parts of the tourist itinerary, Tripathy said.

… The Government would build a 150-feet-high Buddha statute at Neulapur hill and a 85-feet Buddha statute at Deuli hill. A 50-feet-high Shiva statute would be built in the Gokarneswat temple. A 500-meter-long ropeway would be connected from Deuli hill to Kaima hill, he added.