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VISVESVARAYA INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM

Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bangalore, popularly known as Visvesvaraya Museum it’s a constituent unit of National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), Ministry of Culture, Government of India, was established in memory of Bharat Ratna Sir M. Visvesvaraya. A modest building with a built up area of 4000 sq. mtrs. was constructed in the serene surrounding of the Cubbon Park, housing various industrial products and engines, which was opened by the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on 14.07.1962. The first gallery set up at VISVESVARAYA INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM on the theme ‘Electricity” was opened to the public on 27.07.1965 by the then Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting & Bharat Ratna Indira Gandhi. 

Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum has a Dinosaur Corner with mobile app facility & a 1:1 scale replica of the Wright Brothers’ Flyer “Kitty Hawk” along with ‘Flyer Simulator’ providing an immersive and entertaining experience to the visitor. The ‘Science on a Sphere’ at VISVESVARAYA INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM, the only one in Asia, is a large visualization system that uses multimedia projections to display animated data on the sphere converting it into an immersive animated globe showing dynamic, animated images of the atmosphere, ocean's and land area of a planet, combined with narration. VISVESVARAYA INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM has 7 permanent exhibition galleries titled Engine Hall, Fun Science, Electrotechnic, Space – Emerging Technology in the Service of Mankind, Biotechnological Revolution, BEL Hall of Electronics and Children Science.