National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) is 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. There are 24 own science centers or museums and one R & D laboratory and Training centre of NCSM, located in different states in India.
Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Kolkata, inaugurated on 2 May 1959Bardhaman Science Centre, Babur Bagh, inaugurated on 9 January 1994Digha Science Centre & National Science Camp, New Digha, inaugurated on 31 August 1997Dhenkanal Science Centre, Orissa, inaugurated on 5 June 1995District Science Centre, Purulia, inaugurated on 15 December 1982Kapilas Science Park, Dhenkanal, inaugurated on 5 June 1995North Bengal Science Centre, Matigara, inaugurated on 17 August 1997Regional Science Centre, Bhubaneswar, inaugurated on 18 September 1989Srikrishna Science Centre, Patna, inaugurated on 14 April 1978North Bengal Science Centre, Siliguri, inaugurated on 17 August 1997Central Research & Training Laboratory, Kolkata, R & D laboratory and Training centre of NCSM. Operational since 1 January 1988 and dedicated to the nation on 13 March 1993Regional Science Centre, Guwahati, inaugurated on 15 March 1994National Science Centre, Delhi, inaugurated on 9 January 1992Regional Science City, Lucknow, operational since 1989Kurukshetra Panorama & Science Centre, Haryana, operational since 2000Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai, inaugurated on 11 November 1985District Science Centre, Dharampur, India, operational since 1984Goa Science Centre, Panjim, operational since 2002Raman Science Centre & Planetarium, Nagpur, operational since 1992 & 1996 respectivelyRegional Science Centre, Bhopal, operational since 1995Regional Science Centre and Planetarium, Kozhikode, operational since 1997Science City, Kolkata, fully operational since 1 July 1997Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bangalore, operational since 1965District Science Centre, Gulbarga, operational since 1984District Science Centre, Tirunelveli, operational since 1987Regional Science Centre, Tirupati, operational since 1993Arunachal Pradesh Science Centre, Itanagar, inaugurated on 3 December 2005Chhattisgarh Science Centre, Raipur, inaugurated on 13 July 2012Dharwad Regional Science Centre, inaugurated on 27 February 2012Kalimpong Science Centre, Darjeeling, inaugurated on 2 October 2008Kalpana Chawla Memorial Planetarium, Kurukshetra, inaugurated on 24 July 2007Maharaja Ranjit Singh Panorama, Amritsar, inaugurated on 20 July 2006Manipur Science Centre, Imphal, inaugurated on 18 May 2005Mizoram Science Centre, Aizwal, inaugurated on 26 July 2003Nagaland Science Centre, Dimapur, inaugurated on 14 September 2004Ranchi Science Centre, Jharkhand, inaugurated on 29 November 2010Rajiv Gandhi Science Centre, Port Louis, inaugurated on 30 November 2004Regional Science Centre, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, inaugurated on 17 July 2013Science Centre Port Blair, Andaman, inaugurated on 30 May 2003Shillong Science Centre, Meghalaya, inaugurated on 27 February 2006Sikkim Science Centre, Marchak, inaugurated on 22 February 2008Solapur Science Centre, South Maharashtra, inaugurated on 14 February 2010NCSM is now developing science centres at the following places in India with collaboration by the respective State Governments.
DehradunJaipurJammu & KashmirJodhpurJorhatPilikulaPondicherryPuneA two years full-time four semester M Tech course in Science Communication in collaboration with the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, is being offered from 2005 at NCSM campus, Kolkata.
