Birla Industrial and Technological Museum
Birla Industrial and Technological Museum was established in 1956. It was started by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. It was at the initiative of Dr. B.C. Roy, the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, that the House of Birlas donated the building and the adjoining plot of land. This originally belonged to Satyendranath Tagore, the elder brother of the great poet Rabindranath Tagore and was used for setting up a science museum. Since 1978 the museum has come under the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) an autonomous body, set up by the Union Ministry of Education & Culture to administer the museums which were formerly under the CSIR and to develop new science museums in the country. The primary objective of the museum is to arouse scientific curiosity and an understanding of science and technology among the common people, especially the student-community.