Coimbatore Trip Overview
While you are in Coimbatore, don’t miss the chance to visit Gedee Car Museum, which is touted as one of its kind in India with some of the exhibited cars not to be seen anywhere else in the country. Every significant development in the automobile industry along with a lot of wheels from all over the world is on display. It is a tribute to well-known scientist, inventor, educationalist and philanthropist Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu (GD Naidu) (1893–1974), also referred to as the Edison of India.
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Duration: 2 to 4 hours
Starts: Coimbatore, India
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Literary, Art & Music Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
While you are in Coimbatore, don’t miss the chance to visit Gedee Car Museum, which is touted as one of its kind in India with some of the exhibited cars not to be seen anywhere else in the country. Every significant development in the automobile industry along with a lot of wheels from all over the world is on display. It is a tribute to well-known scientist, inventor, educationalist and philanthropist Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu (GD Naidu) (1893–1974), also referred to as the Edison of India.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Gedee Car Museum, Avinashi Rd 734 President Hall, Coimbatore 641018 India
Start explore this museum which houses every important development in the automobile industry, from a striking replica of the first car in the world – 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen to the newly launched cars. The cars in the main hall are arranged chronologically: from a replica of the first automobile in the world to modern racing cars.
Each car is provided with dedicated posters for explaining its evolution with respect to the automobile industry as a whole.The museum displays around 70 models, of which over 30 are from G D Charitable Trust’s collection. Some cars were donated to the museum by auto aficionados from various cities of India and the significant contributions from United States and Germany.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: G.D. Naidu Industrial Exhibition, Main City, Coimbatore 641018 India
The G.D.Naidu museum and industrial exhibition in Coimbatore contains an impressive collection of various electrical/electronic/scientific devices and gadgets that has been in existence since very early years to the recent times. In fact, one visit to this museum would make you familiar with the different types of film cameras, projection TV’s, ball point pens, floppy disks, calculators, type writers, PA systems, printers, and many many more devices that were used right from 1930’s/40’s till today! The photos below show a few of the interesting equipments kept on display.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Kasthuri Sreenivasan Trust Art Gallery and Textile Museum, Avinashi Road, Coimbatore 641014 India
Get a unique perspective at the Textile Museum, Which has display on different types of handlooms from across the country and unusual fibre like banana and pineapple. You can also find collection of Saxony wheel, Jurgen spins wheel, tackle spinning, Egyptian spins, Chinese silk weaving, early Egyptian spinning, an Egyptian painting showing spinning and weaving, Leonard DA Vinci’s spinning wheel, and much more are displayed. Continue to visit in the Art Gallery on the other hand, houses traditional Indian art including Thanjavur paintings that are almost a century old. Overseas art from across the world is also on prominent display.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Gass Forest Museum, Cowley Brown Road Forest College Campus, Coimbatore 641002 India
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Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Insect Museum, TNAU, Maruthamalai Main Road Tamil Nadu Agricultural University campus, Coimbatore 641003 India
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Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Government Museum, Pantheon Road, Chennai (Madras) India
you may skip if you don’t like to visit
Duration: 10 minutes
