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The Visvesvaraya Industrial Museum Society (VIMS) came to be registered as the nodal agency in order to pool resources from various industrial houses. It was inaugurated by the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, on July 14, 1962. [1] The first exhibition, 'Electricity', was opened to the public on July 27, 1965. [2]
Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum [4] Bangalore Science Museum: 1965 National Council of Science Museums [5] Museum was instituted as part of the centenary celebrations of the engineer-statesman Sir M. Visvesvaraya (1861–1962). Artifacts related to Engines, transportation, telecommunication, aviation, rockets, computational ...
The Visvesvaraya Centre (better known as Visvesvaraya Towers) is a government office complex in Bangalore. The complex was built on the site of the former house of Sir M. Visvesvaraya , after his death, and gets its name from him. [ 1 ]
After Kolkata and Bangalore, the work for the third centre in Mumbai was taken up in 1974. As the popularisation of science and technology through the science museums grew in scope and size, the Union Planning Commission constituted a task force in the early 1970s to assess the activities of the science museums.
Government Museum, Bengaluru, established in 1865 by the Mysore State with the guidance of Surgeon Edward Balfour who founded the museum in Madras and supported by the Chief Commissioner of Mysore, L.B. Bowring, [1] is one of the oldest museums in India [3] and the second oldest museum in South India. [1]
The museum has a diverse collection of over 600 brain samples and is the result of over 30 years of research. [6] The museum seeks to help visitors understand how the brain works and get an insight into the kind of diseases that can affect it. [7] Philatelic Museum is located at the first floor of the Bangalore General Post Office near Vidhana ...
Venkatappa Art Gallery also played host to the seventh Khoj International Artists’ Residency in Bangalore in December 2003. [citation needed] This brought together artists from both Bangalore and the rest of the world to enable a working together, opening up the space for new conversations, for new dialogues, new partnerships to form. This ...
Kasturba Road is a street in Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka, India, which is connected to M G Road to the north and J C Road to the south. Some important landmarks situated along Kasturba Road are Sree Kanteerava Stadium, Kanteerava Indoor Stadium, Cubbon Park, Government Museum, Venkatappa Art Gallery, Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum and UB City.