Saturday, May 24, 2008

Fun Science Gallery inaugurated

Bah......Science! That's only for the clever. So goes the common adage. But, here is a museum conceptualised to attract the young toward the science stream. Making science a fun and exciting is the Fun Science Gallery of the Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum. It is spread over an area of 700 sq.mts. consists of 50 interactive exhibits and a state- of- the art digital 3-D theatre.

A digital 3-D theatre, which is part of the Fun Science Gallery is equipped with two state-of- the- art digital video projectors and gives unparalled color fidelity, brightness to enable vivid projection onto a 3.6 wide screen. VITM houses seven exhibition galleries including the Engine Hall, Electotechie, Science for children, Space, Biotechnological Revolution, BEL Hall of Electronics and Fun Science Gallery. Two special exhibits consisting of working models of dinosaur and a replica of Wright Brothers' Flyer-I are the main attractions at VITM.

And, rising bubbles, wave motion, floating ball, chaos and order, lazy coins, air cannon are some of the exhibits at the Gallery.

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