National Council of Science Museums (NCSM)

National Council of Science Museums (NCSM)has developed a chain of science museums and science centers throughout the Country including Science Cities through the Scheme for Promotion of Culture of Science (SPoCS).

About NCSM

  • An autonomous organisation under Indian Ministry of Culture, it is the largest chain of science centers or museums under a single administrative umbrella in the world.
  • Headquartered in Kolkata, it has been built to coordinate all informal science communication activities in the museum space in the country.
  • The first science museum, Birla Industrial and Technological Museum (BITM), Kolkata under CSIR, was opened on May 2, 1959.
  • In July ....
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