 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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(Last Updated on : 11/12/2019)
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