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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]
Museum is dedicated to Yelahanka chieftain Kempegowda (1513-1569) who is the founder of Bangalore city. The museum has Kempegowda's statue as well as posters and pictures of forts, temples, reservoirs and inscriptions from his time. 5 Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum [4] Bangalore Science Museum: 1965 National Council of Science ...
The museum saw many visitors in the early part of its history. The average annual footfall was 280,000 in the 1870s and over 400,000 [2] in the early part of the 20th century [2] as per museum records catalogued by the British. According to museum officials, the annual number of visitors is over 90,000 consisting of domestic and international ...
The station acquires its name from the nearby University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, which had been named after M. Visvesvaraya, an Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918. [1]
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 ]
The plan for the museum/gallery was for five floors but only three floors have been built and the whole building has been air-conditioned. It also houses the collections of KK Hebbar and the sculptor Rajaram. KK Hebbar, an internationally acclaimed painter from Karnataka, donated his collection to Venkatappa Art Gallery in 1993. The Government ...
VENICE, Italy — Ancient and beautiful, this city is sometimes referred to as an open air museum — and now visitors to Venice will have to pay an entry fee after the tourist hub on Thursday ...
National Gallery of Modern Art is an art gallery in Bangalore.It was inaugurated in the year 2009. It showcases modern Indian art and houses paintings by Raja Ravi Verma, Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher-Gil, Rabindranath Tagore and a large number of modern and contemporary artists. [1]