The Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation Museum, also known as Visakha Museum, is one of the three museums that flank Beach Road (the other two being INS Kurusura Museum and TU 142M Aircraft Museum). Established in 1991 and maintained by the State Government, the building used to be a Dutch bungalow before it was repurposed into a museum. The displays at Visakha Museum range from musical instruments, historical paintings and obsolete objects to military artefacts, allowing visitors to engage with an eclectic collection. Some of the key items of interest include - the shell of an unexploded bomb from World War II; the shell of a coconut broken by Jawaharlal Nehru at the launch of the ship S.S. Jala Usha (the first steamer manufactured in India after independence by the Scindia Steam Navigation Company); the desk used by Mahatma Gandhi and later by Sri Tenneti Viswanadham. Their collection also has an archive of old photographs. The museum also regularly holds art shows, art camps and photo exhibitions.