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Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Kolkata

Documented from 1959

Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Kolkata — 1959 is the year the museum says it was established, by CSIR, cited to Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, National Council of Science Museums.

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  • 1959 — the year the museum says it was established, by CSIR. · 1959

    • History – BITM

      “Established on 2nd May 1959 under the administrative control of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Birla Industrial & Technological Museum in Kolkata is widely regarded as the mother of science museum movement in India.”

philanthropy

  • Gave the property on which Birla Industrial & Technological Museum was established. Birla family

    • History – BITM

      “Pandit Nehru received this magnanimous gift from Shri G D Birla in 1956.”

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