Other Important Places

Tea Museum

     Tea museum – your encyclopedia to the wonderfully refreshing world of Tea!. And where better to know all about it, than the Queen of tea growing districts in India – the Nilgiris! Set atop one of the many blue hills of the Nilgiris District and adjacent to the Doddabetta Tea Factory, the Tea Museum is a ‘mustsee’ for all tea lovers.

     Take a walk down history lane – soak in the events and circumstances in history that moulded the Tea industry absorb the social customs and traditions that various cultures observed with regard to Tea get a glimpse into what life is like on a Tea plantation…  Information on tea presented like never before, it’ll amaze both children and adults alike.

      Tea manufacture, happening live. You’ll see it all right from when the leaf is brought into the factory for withering, to the rolling, drying and shifting stages… Until the tea grains are poured into jute bags for shipment.  A exciting journey in itself.  There is also available high quality Tea at the sales counter.

Wax Museum

     Housed at a prominent 130 year old bungalow on Ooty – Coonoor Road (Near Aawin milk), this museum displays life-size look-alike wax statues of famous people. Wax statue making involves computerized digital imaging techniques, traditional and conventional sculpting and molding methodologies.  Depending upon the complexity, the cost of making a wax statue varies between Rs. 3 lakhs – 15 lakhs. The statues are made by a Business man / Engineer Shreeji Bhaskaran as a hobby.  He is also famous for making the wax statues of “The Last Supper” (22 feet in length and 500 km of wax) which was unveiled and blessed at the Art Gallery of the SE Cathedral (World Heritage building) in Old Goa by His Eminence Cardinal Paul Poupard, the president, Council for Inter religious Dialogue at the Vatican on 20th November 2006.  This museum was inaugurated by Sri. Santosh K.Misra, Collector, Nilgiris district in March 2007.  The museum has become ‘A must see’ of Ooty.