Birla Museum, Pilani, Rajasthan India

India‘s first technological museum is one of the best science museums in the country. Situated in Pilani‘s famous educational complex, envisioned by Shri G.D. Birla, it was Shri L.N. Birla who got the idea of setting up a museum in 1954.

At present, this Museum has 15 galleries with interactive exhibits, that let users get a hands-on educational experience of basic scientific principles as well as the working of complex gadgets and machinery.

It was then, as it is now, the only technological museum situated in a university campus in India . This museum provided a great deal of impetus and inspiration to establish a number of other technological museums elsewhere in India .

Today the country can boast of having over a dozen museums of science & technology. However, the Birla museum at Pilani is the only technological museum in India which is privately sponsored, others being Government establishments.