Odisha State Maritime Museum

28KM per person

Bhubaneswar		Odisha State Maritime Museum	≈ 30Mins
Bhubaneswar		Odisha State Maritime Museum	≈ 28Mins

BSET TIME TO VISIT : January to December

OPENS TILL : 10:00AM – 05:00PM

SERVICE CHARGES :
Entry fee : Free
Vehicle : Free

WHAT TO EXPECT INSIDE :

Interesting things to visits near:
Maritime History
Navigation is important for a vessel in high seas to chart its course properly. Sailing on high seas is almost coeval with the civilizations and ancient cultures. From very early time may take to sea voyages. Accordingly navigational skills were slowly developed. In the beginning the stellar bodies like the Sun, the Moon, the Starts and particularly the polar star on the North Star (Dhriva Tara) in Indian context were the guiding points for Navigation on high seas. In due course the compass, the latitudes and longitudes, the meridian and tropical lines were invented and used by Navigators.
Navigation
Navigation is important for a vessel in high seas to chart its course properly. Sailing on high seas is almost coeval with the civilizations and ancient cultures. From very early time may take to sea voyages. Accordingly navigational skills were slowly developed. In the beginning the stellar bodies like the Sun, the Moon, the Starts and particularly the polar star on the North Star (Dhriva Tara) in Indian context were the guiding points for Navigation on high seas. In due course the compass, the latitudes and longitudes, the meridian and tropical lines were invented and used by Navigators.

The Orissa State Maritime Museum, which has been set up at this Jobra Workshop, has 10 no 0f galleries along with its ancillary components, workshop as required in a modern museum. This location, which has a beginning around 1868, has the unique distinction of being the only workshop, which catered to the requirement of these provinces of Bihar, Bengal and Orissa under the Bengal Presidency of British India. It was set up by the these PWD department of British administration through the efforts of our Indian Engineer immediately after the great famine of 1866 in Orissa, known as “Naa Anka Durviksa”.

The British administration took up the work of excavating the Coast Canal, Taladanda Canal and other irrigation projects to counter the effects of drought. This workshop was mainly catering to the need of Anykats, dams, canals and most important inland water transport system, At that time the access to Calcutta from Cuttack was only through a journey on sea from Chandabali to Hooghly.

Navigation is important for a vessel in high seas to chart its course properly. Sailing on high seas is almost coeval with the civilizations and ancient cultures. From very early time may take to sea voyages. Accordingly navigational skills were slowly developed. In the beginning the stellar bodies like the Sun, the Moon, the Starts and particularly the polar star on the North Star (Dhriva Tara) in Indian context were the guiding points for Navigation on high seas. In due course the compass, the latitudes and longitudes, the meridian and tropical lines were invented and used by Navigators. In this gallery the history of navigation is illustrated through objects, charts, photographs and models

Monument & Museums

Destination

Odisha State Maritime Museum Cuttack

From Our Gallery

he Odisha State Maritime Museum, which has been set up at this Jobra Workshop, has 10 nos of galleries along with its ancillary components, as required in a modern museum. This location, which has a beginning around 1869 has the unique distinction of being the only workshop, which catered to the requirement of three provinces of Bihar, Bengal and Odisha under the Bengal Presidency of British India. It was set up by the then PWD department of British administration through the efforts of one Scottish Engineer Mr.G.H.Faulkner immediately after the great famine of 1866 in Odisha, known as “Naa Anka Durviksha”.