Shift your gaze bang opposite the museum and you will see an elegant mansion called the Patal Bari (meaning ‘underground house’), named so because a portion of the house is submerged by the Hooghly river!
The Patal Bari, with its beautiful wooden sunshades and decorative water outlets, is an architectural marvel that often finds mentions in Bengali literature. It has a long list of distinguished visitors including Rabindranath Tagore, Aurobindo Ghosh & Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar.
