Birla Museum
Birla Museum
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Vishwang
Mumbai, India74 contributions
Jan 2015 • Solo
Birla Museum is one of its kind being India's first technological museum. It is located inside Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani Campus. The Museum has many galleries with interactive exhibits, that let users get a hands-on educational experience of basic scientific principles as well as the working of complex gadgets and machinery
Written 13 December 2015
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Rajiv Agarwal
Mumbai, India143 contributions
Jul 2017 • Family
this is a unique museum in the BITS Pilani campus. Lots of fascinating stuff on science and interesting working experiments also. The aircraft on the front lawn and the coal mine replica was an added attraction!
Written 14 August 2017
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RAJAN B
Fort Collins, CO127 contributions
Mar 2013 • Friends
Remember the place from way back when I was a student at BITS Beautiful and serene. I remember especially the sand pendulum drawing Lissajou's figures. The model T Ford!
Written 7 February 2014
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indusvalleytravel
New Delhi, India11 contributions
Mar 2016
It is an excellent place for kids. The museum has working models. The staff is very interactive and friendly.
Written 24 April 2016
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nbhargava
New Delhi, India47 contributions
Feb 2016
I was in Pilani on 21st feb 2016 with my husband to celebrate bits Pilani Alumanai golden jublli celeberations.There I got the chance to visit Birla Museam and Aditya Birla Museam. The museam are so well kept and knowledge giving that others should leran how to maintain such cleanliness and functionality of devices.
One should not miss a chance to visit Birla museam if one is there or on purpose take the childen with you and they will not be disappointed
One should not miss a chance to visit Birla museam if one is there or on purpose take the childen with you and they will not be disappointed
Written 31 March 2016
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sidthetraveller2015
Pilani, India10 contributions
Aug 2015
Important things first. It's going to take atleast 2 hours to cover the whole museum. The museum has a small entrance fee of Rs.10 per person. It is open from 10 AM to 5PM on weekdays and also open on Sundays. Students from nearby schools come on a tour to this museum on Sundays. The museum is filled with amazing facts about Coal production, starting of train travel in india, production steps in factories. Right from the industrial revolution history to technological revolution, this museum has it all. The best part about it is the replica of a coal mining field built inside the museum. You go deep down and find the tunnels which you might have seen only in movies. The temperature is a little high. The other section provides a detailed version of how did aircrafts come into being and how does a rocket work? All in all, its a good experience for people still interested in museums today.
Written 9 February 2016
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Vikas Sinha
Pilani, India7 contributions
Aug 2018
Birla Science Museum is the first Science and Technology Museum of the Country,
It houses Exhibits and Displays on Science and Technology where visitors can interact with the Exhibits to make the understanding of Science and Technology easy and entertaining.
It houses Exhibits and Displays on Science and Technology where visitors can interact with the Exhibits to make the understanding of Science and Technology easy and entertaining.
Written 9 December 2018
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sandeepkumarindia
National Capital Territory of Delhi, India407 contributions
Nov 2016
Being the birthplace of Birlas the place has really preserved some old memorabilia from their family .
Written 22 June 2017
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UtkarshAjayShah
Mumbai, India220 contributions
Apr 2016 • Friends
Birla Museum is a good place for young kids to start their journey in the world of science. It has robots, some games and other discoveries.
Written 22 December 2016
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sumantra_travel
New Delhi, India3,682 contributions
Jun 2016
25 June, 2016.
The Birla Museum was the first science and technology museum, in India.
Having been to three spectacular other such museums (the
Visvesvaraya museum in Bengaluru, the Science City in Kolkata and
the Nehru Science City in Mumbai), I can safely state that the
oldest is still one of the best maintained. Photography inside
the museum is out of bounds, so says the notice. I have visited
the place one in 1988, and this time, on 25 June, 2016. There is
little to separate it from my 1988 memories of the place. This
time, I had The Wife and Junior for company, and they enjoyed it
thoroughly. There were working models all around, and most could
be operated at the press of a button, which would light up
different areas, and make gears, and objects move. There were
models of dams, factories, industrial plants, and many more,
which would sow seeds of interest in a budding engineer. We were
taken past the Solar System exhibit quickly to the `Story of
Pilani' show, a new exhibit with life-like models of people
telling the story of the place, with their hands and mouths, and
other body parts, moving with the audio. The little auditorium
has its chairs rotate along with the exhibit being described. This
leads to a story of the Birla family, depicted in wax figures, on
the ground floor of this complex. This is as impressive as other
exhibits around. The cars used by the Birla family of
industrialists have been preserved, as has been a DC-3 plane used
by G. D. Birla, a scion of the family. These are there as outdoor
exhibits. The indoor exhibits feature a hall of physics and
mathematics, where interesting concepts are explained through
working models: right from resonance, magnetic effects of
electric current, optical illusions, the Pythagoras theorem, and
a Foucault pendulum, which draws Lissajous figures with sand
falling out of the pendulum. There is a realistic model of a
coal mine, and a Biology exhibit, which had all of us enthused.
One can spend more than an entire day in this museum!
The Birla Museum was the first science and technology museum, in India.
Having been to three spectacular other such museums (the
Visvesvaraya museum in Bengaluru, the Science City in Kolkata and
the Nehru Science City in Mumbai), I can safely state that the
oldest is still one of the best maintained. Photography inside
the museum is out of bounds, so says the notice. I have visited
the place one in 1988, and this time, on 25 June, 2016. There is
little to separate it from my 1988 memories of the place. This
time, I had The Wife and Junior for company, and they enjoyed it
thoroughly. There were working models all around, and most could
be operated at the press of a button, which would light up
different areas, and make gears, and objects move. There were
models of dams, factories, industrial plants, and many more,
which would sow seeds of interest in a budding engineer. We were
taken past the Solar System exhibit quickly to the `Story of
Pilani' show, a new exhibit with life-like models of people
telling the story of the place, with their hands and mouths, and
other body parts, moving with the audio. The little auditorium
has its chairs rotate along with the exhibit being described. This
leads to a story of the Birla family, depicted in wax figures, on
the ground floor of this complex. This is as impressive as other
exhibits around. The cars used by the Birla family of
industrialists have been preserved, as has been a DC-3 plane used
by G. D. Birla, a scion of the family. These are there as outdoor
exhibits. The indoor exhibits feature a hall of physics and
mathematics, where interesting concepts are explained through
working models: right from resonance, magnetic effects of
electric current, optical illusions, the Pythagoras theorem, and
a Foucault pendulum, which draws Lissajous figures with sand
falling out of the pendulum. There is a realistic model of a
coal mine, and a Biology exhibit, which had all of us enthused.
One can spend more than an entire day in this museum!
Written 7 July 2016
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