It was named after Gurusaday Dutt,[citation needed] an ICS officer and a Bengali patriot.
Gurusaday Dutt Road falls under the upscale locality of Ballygunge in South Kolkata.
Modelled on the Deutsches Museum, it has interactive popular science exhibits and a significant collection of historical industrial holdings in India.
Its collection of old gramophones, sound recorders, telephones, steam engines, road rollers and other industrial machinery of the period 1880–1950 is very significant.
It also actively organizes summer camps, awareness programs and astronomy observations for school children.