Location
Vidya Bhavana, established in 1925 by the great poet and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, is a study centre dedicated to humanities and social sciences located Visva Bharati University complex in Shantiniketan. The centre provides the requisites to undergo regular courses for graduate and post graduate degrees. Many foreign national are undergoing courses in this Institute, a one year diploma course on Indian culture and civilization is offered in the Institute for foreign students.
The Vidya Bhavana encloses a nice and marvelously maintained Archeological Museum displaying large number of manuscripts in different languages, mainly in Bengali, Sanskrit, Oriya, Persian, Arabic and Tibetan.