San Thome Museum

South Goa


This quirky museum at the Varca (southern) end of Benaulim, dubbed 'Back in Time', has three floors of carefully presented technology through the ages, from old cameras and typewriters to gramophones, clocks and projectors. Highlights include a Scheidmayer grand piano, a Raleigh bicycle and an anchor cast from the same pattern as the Titanic's.


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