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 1959
Bardhaman Science Centre, Babur Bagh, inaugurated on 9 January 1994
Digha Science Centre & National Science Camp, New Digha, inaugurated on 31 August 1997
Dhenkanal Science Centre, Orissa, inaugurated on 5 June 1995
District Science Centre, Purulia, inaugurated on 15 December 1982
Kapilas Science Park, Dhenkanal, inaugurated on 5 June 1995
North Bengal Science Centre, Matigara, inaugurated on 17 August 1997
Regional Science Centre, Bhubaneswar, inaugurated on 18 September 1989
Srikrishna Science Centre, Patna, inaugurated on 14 April 1978
North Bengal Science Centre, Siliguri, inaugurated on 17 August 1997
Central 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 1993
Regional Science Centre, Guwahati, inaugurated on 15 March 1994
National Science Centre, Delhi, inaugurated on 9 January 1992
Regional Science City, Lucknow, operational since 1989
Kurukshetra Panorama & Science Centre, Haryana, operational since 2000
Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai, inaugurated on 11 November 1985
District Science Centre, Dharampur, India, operational since 1984
Goa Science Centre, Panjim, operational since 2002
Raman Science Centre & Planetarium, Nagpur, operational since 1992 & 1996 respectively
Regional Science Centre, Bhopal, operational since 1995
Regional Science Centre and Planetarium, Kozhikode, operational since 1997
Science City, Kolkata, fully operational since 1 July 1997
Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bangalore, operational since 1965
District Science Centre, Gulbarga, operational since 1984
District Science Centre, Tirunelveli, operational since 1987
Regional Science Centre, Tirupati, operational since 1993
Arunachal Pradesh Science Centre, Itanagar, inaugurated on 3 December 2005
Chhattisgarh Science Centre, Raipur, inaugurated on 13 July 2012
Dharwad Regional Science Centre, inaugurated on 27 February 2012
Kalimpong Science Centre, Darjeeling, inaugurated on 2 October 2008
Kalpana Chawla Memorial Planetarium, Kurukshetra, inaugurated on 24 July 2007
Maharaja Ranjit Singh Panorama, Amritsar, inaugurated on 20 July 2006
Manipur Science Centre, Imphal, inaugurated on 18 May 2005
Mizoram Science Centre, Aizwal, inaugurated on 26 July 2003
Nagaland Science Centre, Dimapur, inaugurated on 14 September 2004
Ranchi Science Centre, Jharkhand, inaugurated on 29 November 2010
Rajiv Gandhi Science Centre, Port Louis, inaugurated on 30 November 2004
Regional Science Centre, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, inaugurated on 17 July 2013
Science Centre Port Blair, Andaman, inaugurated on 30 May 2003
Shillong Science Centre, Meghalaya, inaugurated on 27 February 2006
Sikkim Science Centre, Marchak, inaugurated on 22 February 2008
Solapur Science Centre, South Maharashtra, inaugurated on 14 February 2010
NCSM is now developing science centres at the following places in India with collaboration by the respective State Governments.
Dehradun
Jaipur
Jammu & Kashmir
Jodhpur
Jorhat
Pilikula
Pondicherry
Pune
A 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.
