Mahatma Phule Museum, Educational museum in Shivajinagar, India.

The Mahatma Phule Museum is a general museum in Shivajinagar, Pune, holding collections on industry, engineering, geology, handicrafts, agriculture, forestry, natural history, and military equipment. It sits on Ghole Road and its galleries cover a wide range of subjects across several rooms.

The museum opened in 1890 as the Poona Industrial Museum and was later known as the Lord Reay Museum before receiving its current name in 1968, in honor of the social reformer Mahatma Jyotirao Phule. That final renaming reflected a shift in how the institution saw its own purpose within the city.

The museum displays weapons from the Mughal and Maratha periods alongside traditional stone carvings and oil paintings made by Indian craftspeople. These objects show directly the kind of skills that were passed down and practiced in this region over centuries.

The museum is open every day except Wednesdays and entry is free for all visitors. It is worth setting aside enough time since the collections cover very different subjects and moving quickly through them means missing a lot.

Since 1928 the museum has published a monthly science magazine called Srishtidnyan, written in simple language to explain scientific developments to general readers. This publication has run for nearly a century, making the museum one of the longest-standing science communicators in the country.

• Location: Pune
• Inception: 1890
• Phone: [phone]
• GPS coordinates: 18.52355,73.84517
• Latest update: March 3, 2026 08:17