Visitors take a look at snakes kept in glass boxes - Chennai

From the archive record

The Chennai Snake Park Trust is a not-for-profit NGO constituted in 1972 by herpetologist Romulus Whitaker and is India’s first reptile park. Also known as the Guindy Snake Park, it is located next to the Children’s Park in the Guindy National Park campus. Located on the former home of the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, the park is home to a wide range of snakes such as adders, pythons, vipers, cobras and other reptiles. The park has a digital Infotainment based visitors interpretation centre. Chennai Snake Park also has some interesting real life exhibits and valuable information on different types of reptiles. The entrance of the museum has a good display of preserved specimens of amphibians, lizards, turtles and snakes. There are also photographs of prominent scientists who studied Indian