About National Council of Science Museums (NCSM):
- It is an autonomous society under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
- NCSM, with its headquarters in Kolkata, has its own network of science museums/centres spread across the country and a Central Research & Training Laboratory (CRTL) in Kolkata.
- CRTL is the Council’s central hub for professional training, research, and development.
- National-Level Centres of NCSM:
- Science City, Kolkata
- Birla Industrial and Technological Museum (BITM), Kolkata
- Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai
- Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum (VITM), Bangalore
- National Science Centre, Delhi
- National Science Centre, Guwahati
- Except for Science City, Kolkata, all have regional and sub-regional/district science centres called Satellite Units (SUs).
- In addition, NCSM develops Science Centres/museums for different States and Union Territories.
- NCSM has also developed several centres and galleries for different Government organisations such as ONGC, BEL, ICAR, etc.
- It has also collaborated internationally for the development of Museum/Science Centres or for galleries such as the Rajiv Gandhi Science Centre, Mauritius; ‘India’ gallery on Buddhism at the ‘International Buddhist Museum’, Kandy, Sri Lanka;
- It also strives to communicate science to empower people through its Mobile Science Exhibitions, Lectures and Demonstrations, Training and Workshops, Publications, etc.
- Today, NCSM forms the largest network of science centres and museums in the world under a single administrative umbrella.
