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Honoring Sir M. Visvesvaraya, the All India Manufacturers Organization and Mysore State Board decided to create a science and technology museum in Bangalore.The foundation stone was laid by Shri B. D. Jatti, Chief Minister of Mysore, on 15 September 1958.
The Nehru Planetarium in New Delhi is situated on the grounds of Teen Murti Bhavan, previously known as 'Nehru Memorial Museum and Library', earlier the official residence of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru and now a museum in his memory. In 1964, the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund was set up to promote his ideas and it undertook ...
Swami Vivekananda Planetarium is the first state-of-the-art 3D planetarium in India. It was initiated in 2013 to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda by the then chief minister of Karnataka, Jagadish Shettar, who had laid the foundation stone to build it in two years at a cost of ₹ 35.69 crore (US$4.1 million).
The Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City is the most visited planetarium in the world. [ 1 ] This entry is a list of permanent planetariums across the world.
Nearly 350 species of birds have been recorded from the Bangalore region [11] of which around 60 species may be seen with ease. Bangalore has an active bird watching club that meets every Sunday. Bangalore Aquarium is the second largest aquarium in India. It is located at the entrance of Cubbon Park in Bangalore, India, and was established in ...
Wonderla Bangalore has been ranked 1st in India and 7th best in Asia by Tripadvisor for 2014, the highest for any Amusement park in India. [ 8 ] Wonderla Holidays opened its first luxury resort , an 84-room hotel complex spread over 100,000 square feet and operational since 2012. [ 9 ]
The institute is involved in research in conjunction with the Birla Planetarium, also located in Kolkata, [3] which is one of the world's largest planetariums. [ 4 ] The institute has conducted courses in astrobiology for undergraduate students, in which certificates of completion are awarded after course completion.
Nehru Planetarium is based in five locations at Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, Bangalore, and Prayagraj. The Kalpana Chawla Planetarium is in Jyotisar, Kurukshetra, Haryana. [11] In 2023, India had more than 15 private observatories for astrotourism that came up in the last five years, many of which have their observatories in multiple locations.