Birla Planetarium
Birla planetarium Birla planetarium Kolkata is noted as the top 20 places to visit for Kolkata Tour . It is mostly a half-day tour. It is very remarkable to recognize that it is the largest planetarium in Asia and also the second-largest planetarium in the world. Customarily known as “ Taramandal ”, the planetarium was famously inaugurated on 2nd July 1963 by Jawaharlal Nehru, then Prime Minister of India. The architecture of this astonishing building is based on the Buddhist stupa based at Ranchi. The structure of this single-storeyed circular-shaped building is in the traditional Indian style. It consists of an electronics laboratory for design and fabrication of science equipment and astronomic gallery which is renowned for its huge collection of brilliant paintings and celestial models constructed by prominent astronomers. Architecture inside Birla planetarium Kolkata includes an astronomic observatory furnished with a Celestron-14 telescope with various accessories such ...