Concept, Objectives & Importance of Science Museums/Centres for Science Teaching & Learning

2. contents

3. Concept of Science Museum/Centre

4. Objectives of visiting Science Museum/Centre

5. Need & Importance of Science Museum/Centre
1. Science centres are the effective sources for providing hands-on
experiences in learning science.
2. Science centres have the capacity to nourish curiosity, creativity
and spirit of inquiry among their visitors.
3. Science centres have the potential to popularize science and
develop scientific attitude among the masses.
4. Field trips to Science centres are the effective means to learn
science along the principles of constructivism.
5. Science centres serve as entertainment places for the visitors
especially school-going children.
6. Science centres complements and supplements the cause of
formal classroom science learning in in/non-formal settings.

6. List of Science Museums/Centres in India (I)
1. Bardhaman Science Centre, Ramna Maidan Babur Bag,
Bhardhaman – 713104, West Bengal
2. Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, 19A
Gurusaday Road, Kolkata – 700019
3. B.M. Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad
4. Central Research & Training Laboratory, Kolkata –
700091
5. Dhenkanal Science Centre, Near Rajbati, Dhenkanal –
759001
6. Digha Science Centre and National Science Camp,
Foreshore Road, Digha – 721463
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7. List of Science Museums/Centres in India (II)
7. District Science Centre, Garden Road, Dharampur –
396050
8. District Science Centre, Municipal Garden, Gulbarga –
585103
9. District Science Centre, North Lake Road, Purulia –
723101
10. District Science Centre, Kokkirakulam, Tirunelveli –
627009
11. Goa Science Centre, Dona Paula Road, Panaji – 403001
12. Gujarat Science City, Science City Road, off Sarkhej
Gandhinagar Highway,Ahmedabad – 380060
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8. List of Science Museums/Centres in India (III)
13. Kapilas Science Park, Kapilas, Dhenkanal – 759016
14. Kurukshetra Panorama & Science Centre, Pehowa
Road, Kurukshetra – 136118
15. National Museum of Natural History, FICCI Museum
Building, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi-110001
16. National Science Centre, Pragati Maidan, Near Gate
No. 1, Bhairon Road, New Delhi – 110001
17. Nehru Science Centre, Dr E. Moses Road, Worli,
Mumbai – 400018
18. North Bengal Science Centre, Matigara, Siliguri –
734401
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9. List of Science Museums/Centres in India (IV)
19. Pushpa Gujral Science City, Jalandhar-Kapurthala
Road, Kapurthala, Punjab
20. Raman Science Centre, Opp. Gandhi Sagar,
Nagpur – 440018
21. Regional Science Centre, Banganga Road, Shamla
Hills, Bhopal – 462022
22. Regional Science Centre, J.L. Nehru Marg,
Bhubaneswar – 751013
23. Regional Science Centre, Planetarium Road,
Calicut – 673006
24. Regional Science Centre, Jawaharnagar,
Khanapara, Guwahati – 781022
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10. List of Science Museums/Centres in India (IV)
25. Regional Science Centre, Aliganj
Extension, Sector-E, Lucknow – 226020
26. Regional Science Centre, Near Alipiri
Gate, Alipiri, Tirupati – 517507
27. Science City, JBS Haldane Avenue,
Kolkata – 700046
28. Shrikrishna Science Centre, West Gandhi
Maidan, Patna – 800001
29. Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological
Museum, Kasturba Road, Bangalore – 560001

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