BIRLA SCIENCE MUSEUM

B. M. Birla Science Museum is an Indian science museum located in Hyderabad, India.

The museum was opened in 1990, and it was and still is Hyderabad’s only museum that is solely dedicated to science.

The Birla Planetarium is a wing of the Science Center.

The Museum has several sections that are worth visiting.

It consists of a planetarium, museum, science center, art gallery as well as a dinosaurium.

The Dinosaurium is the newest addition to the planetarium and science center and opened in 2000.

It exhibits a 160-million-year-old mounted Dinasaur Kotasaurus, excavated at Adilabad district in Andhra Pradesh.

It was presented to the Science Museum by the Geological Survey of India.

The Dinosaurium also has a collection of smaller fossils of dinosaur eggs, marine shells and fossilised tree trunks.

The Science Center has a section for optical illusions.

The electronics section  has a harp that has sensors for strings and it plays a note when a visitor passes a hand over them.

There are also holograms that show images of plants, drawings and faces.

The Nirmala Birla Art Gallery consists of dolls and sculptures that are made of crystal and glass.

 It is one of the most modern planetarium in the country.