Science sights in Kolkata (Calcutta)
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Birla Planetarium
Loosely styled on the Buddhist stupa located at Sarnath, the Birla Planetarium is one of the world’s largest. Its exterior looks impressive when floodlit. Inside, its outer circle forms a small but well-presented, tomb-like gallery featuring astronomer busts and fading star-gazer pictures. The star shows are slow moving, thickly accented introductions to the night sky.
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Science City
The dramatic Science City is arranged like a theme park. Spherical, spiral and up-turned hemispherical buildings create a uniquely futuristic skyline around a thought-provoking physics garden. Twice hourly the Time Machine gives short, sci-fi themed simulator rides, the Mirror-Maze is brilliantly disorientating and Evolution Park walks you past animatronic dinosaurs in the eerie half dark.
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Birla Industrial & Technological Museum
Kolkata has excellent hands-on places to really experience practical science. The Birla Industrial & Technological Museum. has loads of buttons to press and levers to pull, though some older galleries need repairing.
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