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Gass Forest Museum in Coimbatore
Distance from Coimbatore : 4 km;
Time to Reach from Coimbatore : 0 h, 6 m
Gass Forest Museum was established by the Englishman Henry Anderson Gass in the beginning of 20th century. Originally it was started in Madras and later it was extended to Coimbatore when the forest college was opened here on 1st July 1912. There are many exhibits in the museum under different categories namely timber, non-timer forest products, wood crafts, wildlife, entomology, mycology, geology, ethnology, arms, forest engineering and environment. The anthropological specimens such as tribal dresses and jewelry pieces and the zoological specimens such as antlers, skulls and animal skins are also found here.
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