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| Established | 1985 |
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| Location | Hyderabad,India |
B. M. Birla Science Museum is an Indianscience museum located inHyderabad, India. Constructed by civil engineer P. A. Singaravelu, it comprises a planetarium, museum, science centre, art gallery as well as a dinosaurium.[1] The museum itself was the second phase of the science centre when it opened in 1990.[2] The centre also houses India's first private Space Museum. The museum is a unique facility which is dedicated to history of the space program of India. The space museum was inaugurated in July 2019 and was curated byPranav Sharma.[3][4][5]
The Birla Planetarium is a wing of the Science Centre. Theplanetarium was inaugurated byN. T. Rama Rao, on 8 September 1985 and is one of three Birla Planetariums in India. The others are theM.P. Birla Planetarium inKolkata andB.M. Birla Planetarium inChennai.
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 curatorPranav 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.
The Dinosaurium is the newest addition to the planetarium and science center and opened in 2000.[6] Its exhibits include a 160-million-year-old mountedKotasaurus yamanpalliensis,[7] excavated in the Adilabad district inTelangana and presented to the Science Museum by theGeological Survey of India. The Dinosaurium has a collection of smaller fossils of dinosaur eggs, marine shells and fossilised tree trunks.
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