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{{Short description|Science museum in Hyderabad, India}}
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| established = 1985
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| location = [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]], [[India]]
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'''B. M. Birla Science Museum''' is an Indian [[science museum]] located in [[Hyderabad, India]]. Constructed by civil engineer P. A. Singaravelu, it comprises a planetarium, museum, science centre, art gallery as well as a dinosaurium.<ref name= "lgi">{{cite book|title=Let's Go India and Nepal, 8th Ed.|year=2003|isbn=0-312-32006-X|pages=113|publisher=Macmillan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oM2ZqMfg7hYC&pg=PA113}}</ref> The museum itself was the second phase of the science centre when it opened in 1990.<ref name=smu>{{cite web|title=Science Museum|url=http://www.birlasciencecentre.org/science_museum/science_museum.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112221416/http://www.birlasciencecentre.org/science_museum/science_museum.html|archive-date=12 January 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The centre also houses India's first private Space Museum. The museum is a unique facility which is dedicated to history of the space program of India. The space museum was inaugurated in July 2019 and was curated by [[Pranav Sharma]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=A space traveller's tale|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/2019/dec/21/a-space-travellers-tale-2078898.html|website=The New Indian Express|date=21 December 2019 |access-date=2020-05-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2019-12-06|title=Birla Science Centre's Pranav Sharma gets REX Karmaveer Award|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/birla-science-centres-pranav-sharma-gets-rex-karmaveer-award/article30214217.ece|access-date=2020-05-06|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Thatipalli|first=Mallik|date=2020-02-24|title=Science as a way of life|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/science-as-a-way-of-life/article30899265.ece|access-date=2020-05-06|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

==Planetarium==
The Birla Planetarium is a wing of the Science Centre. The [[planetarium]] was inaugurated by [[N. T. Rama Rao]], on 8 September 1985 and is one of three Birla Planetariums in India. The others are the [[Birla Planetarium, Kolkata|M.P. Birla Planetarium]] in [[Kolkata]] and [[Birla Planetarium, Chennai|B.M. Birla Planetarium]] in [[Chennai]].

== Space Museum ==
The museum brings to light various contributions of ISRO to public awareness through images, illustrations and words. More than forty three people contributed to the narration and which were taken out after some several thousand pages of information and data collected over the span of almost two years by the curator [[Pranav Sharma]]. Satyajit Tuljapurkar was the architect of the place and digital artwork was done by Arjun Kota. Ankur Chhabra and Smyan Thota worked as curation assistants and outreach team leads.

There are more than twenty exhibits including the models of PSLV, GSLV, GSLV-MkIII (which recently successfully carried Chandryaan 2 in the outer space). The legacy series of satellites such as Aryabhata, Bhaskara, Rohini, APPLE and SROSS are also exhibited. A model of International Space Station has been set up amidst Communication Satellites.

==Dinosaurium==
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File:Kotasauraus.jpg|Kotasaurus
File:Kotasauraus adilabad.jpg|Legs of Kotasaurus
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The Dinosaurium is the newest addition to the planetarium and science center and opened in 2000.<ref name=din>{{cite web|title=Dinosaurium|url=http://www.birlasciencecentre.org/dinosaurium/dinosaurium.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114051359/http://www.birlasciencecentre.org/dinosaurium/dinosaurium.html|archive-date=14 January 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Its exhibits include a 160-million-year-old mounted [[Kotasaurus yamanpalliensis]],<ref name=csv>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XOgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA1025|access-date=2012-01-12|title=Competition Science Vision|date=October 2000|last1=Darpan|first1=Pratiyogita}}</ref> excavated in the Adilabad district in [[Telangana]] and presented to the Science Museum by the [[Geological Survey of India]]. The Dinosaurium has a collection of smaller fossils of dinosaur eggs, marine shells and fossilised tree trunks.

==See also==
* [[Indian Astronomical Observatory#Astrotourism|Astrotourism in India]]
*[[M. P. Birla Institute of Fundamental Research]]
*[[List of planetariums]]
*[[Nizam Museum]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Birla Science Museum}}
*[http://www.birlasciencecentre.org/ B.M. Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212130659/http://birlasciencecentre.org/ |date=12 February 2009 }}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070414212605/http://education.vsnl.com/planetarium/ M.P. Birla Planetarium, Kolkata]

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[[Category:Museums in Hyderabad, India]]
[[Category:Science museums in India]]
[[Category:Planetaria in India]]
[[Category:Science and technology in Hyderabad, India]]
[[Category:Museums established in 1985]]
[[Category:1985 establishments in Andhra Pradesh]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Hyderabad, India]]

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