heritage transport museum
The Heritage Transport Museum founded by Mr. Tarun Thakral opened its door to the public in December 2013 and is a very famous tourist spot. Situated in Gurugram, this very impressive museum has won the National Tourism Award 2014-15 for the Most Unique and Innovative Tourism Project in India.
It showcases the evolution of transportation in India. As the first private museum of its scale in India, it is thought of as an instructive space that engages visitor participation in learning while remaining a family experience. Many car experts and celebrities have visited the museum and all have been suitably impressed. The museum is divided into various segments and looks almost like several mini museums in one.
The museum has been featured in the famous show "OMG! Yeh Mera India" that is aired on History TV18.
The museum is one of the ways to REMEMBER AND UNITE with our ancestors and culture.
Mr. Tarun Thakral
Tarun Thakral, founder and managing trustee of the Heritage Transportation Trust, is a unique kind of Indian car collector. Like many others he started off collecting cars in 1994 and soon had his private car collection. Then he decided to build a museum and show his cars to the public. But a museum showing just his cars would have been pointless.
So Tarun conceived and created the exceptional Heritage Transport Museum in Taoru, Haryana, just two hours from New Delhi. This museum has been source of joyful moments for many families and also been an inspiration for many car collectors.
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“Where Indian museums lack is they tend to be very boring. They are more like repositories of old objects. I thought that it should be a fun place…that is what our whole objective has been, to create a space which is fun, exciting, with a little bit of romance if you like”
-Tarun Thakral
