Birla Science Museum
Hyderabad, India |
B. M. Birla Science Museum is an Indian
Planetarium
The Birla Planetarium is a wing of the Science Centre. The planetarium was inaugurated by N. T. Rama Rao, on 8 September 1985 and is one of three Birla Planetariums in India. The others are the M.P. Birla Planetarium in Kolkata and B.M. Birla Planetarium in Chennai.
Space Museum
The museum brings to light various contributions of ISRO to public awareness through images, illustrations and words. More than forty three people contributed to the narration and which were taken out after some several thousand pages of information and data collected over the span of almost two years by the curator Pranav Sharma. Satyajit Tuljapurkar was the architect of the place and digital artwork was done by Arjun Kota. Ankur Chhabra and Smyan Thota worked as curation assistants and outreach team leads.
There are more than twenty exhibits including the models of PSLV, GSLV, GSLV-MkIII (which recently successfully carried Chandryaan 2 in the outer space). The legacy series of satellites such as Aryabhata, Bhaskara, Rohini, APPLE and SROSS are also exhibited. A model of International Space Station has been set up amidst Communication Satellites.
Dinosaurium
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Kotasaurus
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Legs of Kotasaurus
The Dinosaurium is the newest addition to the planetarium and science center and opened in 2000.
See also
- Astrotourism in India
- M. P. Birla Institute of Fundamental Research
- List of planetariums
- Nizam Museum
References
- ISBN 0-312-32006-X.
- ^ "Science Museum". Archived from the original on 12 January 2012.
- ^ "A space traveller's tale". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ^ "Dinosaurium". Archived from the original on 14 January 2012.
- ^ Darpan, Pratiyogita (October 2000). "Competition Science Vision". Retrieved 12 January 2012.