Butterfly Museum, Shillong

What do you do all day?

I roam about the sunny fields

And nothing to do but play!

Nothing to do but play? All the lifelong day?

So fly butterfly, to waste your time away!

This poem of childhood years lives in my memories still, and why not? Butterflies are one of the most beautiful beings on this earth and many times I have chased butterflies in the garden and fields. Oh the beautiful colours they come with, and the softness. Many a times I have tried capturing these beauties on a camera but failed either because of their agility or my lack of patience.

One man, however decided to preserve these. Mr Siddhartha Kumar Sarkar, an entomologist from Kolkata went to Shillong and settled there. He and his wife collected various species and built this museum of butterflies.

The Butterfly Museum in Shillong is a privately owned museum and has a collection of butterflies, moths, beetles and spiders from across the world. One will be mesmerized by the colours and the patterns in the collections that the museum has!

A must visit for anyone planning a trip to Shillong

Blogged in 2019.