Anindita Ghosh
2 min readNov 15, 2017

Visiting Birla Industrial & Technological Museum : One of the best places to visit in Kolkata

Birla Industrial & Technological Museum is established on 2nd May,1959, located at GuruSaday Road in Kolkata. This Birla Industrial & Technological Museum is one of the large and major art galleries in India. This Museum is managed by National Council of Science Museums. This council is the major Center for all science museums and centers in India. This museum is one of the popular tourist places to visit in Kolkata, but needs a face-lift.

Gate of Birla Industrial & Technology Museum

This museum remains open everyday from 10.00am to 5.30pm. On Sundays and other holidays it also remains open, except Holi and Kalipuja.

Birla Industrial & Technological Museum offers various facilities to the visitors. Like

  • Collect, preserve and renovate some important historical objects.
  • Device, develop and fabricate model exhibits.
  • Show the development of Science and Technology.
  • Development and broaden of Science educations in schools and Colleges.
  • Provide aid to Schools, Colleges, Universities, and Technical Institutions.
  • Take initiative to popularize Science and Technology to the Urban and Rural areas.

About the Museum:

This amazing museum is one of the best places to visit in kolkata for kids. The whole area is very neat and clean and fully maintained and full of science & technology stuffs. But this place doesnt have a clean eatery or coffee shop!

This place has lots of things and is divided into various sections like motive, Metals electricity, mathematics, Transport, Planet Under Pressure etc.

Mock Coal Mine

Here are few glimpse of this museum

In the ground floor visitors will observe Transport Gallery, Motive Power Gallery, Physics Gallery, Director’s Office.

In the 1st Floor visitors will visit Biotechnology Gallery, Mathematics Gallery, Metals Gallery, Auditorium

In the 2nd Floor- Canteen, Electricity Gallery, Television Gallery, 3D Film Show. Read more