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National Council of Science Museums (NCSM)
National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) is an autonomous organization under Indian Ministry of Culture. It owns 24 science centers and museums.

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National Council of Science Museums (NCSM)National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) is an autonomous organization under Indian Ministry of Culture. It is the largest chain of science centers or museums under a single administrative umbrella in the world. There are 24 science centers or museums and one R and D laboratory and Training centre of NCSM, located in different states in India. Functioning under the Ministry of Culture, NCSM has been built to co-ordinate all informal science communication activities in the museum space in the country.

Units of NCSM
Units of museums and science centers under NCSM are enlisted below:


•Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Kolkata

•Central Research & Training Laboratory, Kolkata

•National Science Centre, Delhi

•Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai

•Science City, Kolkata

•Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bangalore

•Arunachal Pradesh Science Centre, Itanagar

•Chhattisgarh Science Centre, Raipur

•Dharwad Regional Science Centre, Karnataka

•Kalimpong Science Centre, Darjeeling

•Kalpana Chawla Memorial Planetarium, Kurukshetra

•Maharaja Ranjit Singh Panorama, Amritsar

•Manipur Science Centre, Imphal

•Mizoram Science Centre, Aizawl

•Nagaland Science Centre, Dimapur

•Ranchi Science Centre, Jharkhand

•Rajiv Gandhi Science Centre, Port Louis

•Regional Science Centre, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

•Science Centre Port Blair, Andaman

•Shillong Science Centre, Meghalaya

•Sikkim Science Centre, Marchak

•Solapur Science Centre, South Maharashtra

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