Kurrukshetra Panorama And Science Center Case Study
1.5.6 Kurukshetra Panorama and Science Centre, Kurukshetra Kurukshetra Panorama and Science Centre in 2010
Kurukshetra Panorama and Science Centre, the name Kurukshetra itself reminds us of the sanguinary battle between Pandavas and Kauravas from Mahabharata, although the words science centre makes us wonder whether it’s just a regular science centre or it has something relevant to the epic attached to it.
Putting a halt to all those thoughts, we have Kurukshetra Panorama and Science Centre (KPSC) at Haryana pertaining to a lot of both. It is a unique science centre spread on a sprawling five-acre plot of land in the ancient city of Kurukshetra, adjacent to Srikrishna Museum and is located about 1.5 km from Kurukshetra railway station. …show more content…
Ghose retired in the month of August. At that time just the super structure of the building of KPSC was erected. Now it was the responsibility of Shri I.K. Mukherjee, DG NCSM in 1997 under whose leadership the project was completed in the year 2000. The story behind the centre’s establishment is quite interesting. In the early 1990s, both Dr Saroj Ghose and Shri I.K. Mukherjee had visited a panorama museum based on the theme of ‘Battle of Borodino’ in Moscow. They wanted to create a panorama museum on the ‘Battle of Kurukshtra’ in India. When Dr Ghose approached Shri Bhajan Lal, CM of Haryana in 1995, he welcomed the proposal and arranged a suitable place adjacent to the existing Sri Krishna Museum in
Kurukshetra Panorama and Science Centre, the name Kurukshetra itself reminds us of the sanguinary battle between Pandavas and Kauravas from Mahabharata, although the words science centre makes us wonder whether it’s just a regular science centre or it has something relevant to the epic attached to it.
Putting a halt to all those thoughts, we have Kurukshetra Panorama and Science Centre (KPSC) at Haryana pertaining to a lot of both. It is a unique science centre spread on a sprawling five-acre plot of land in the ancient city of Kurukshetra, adjacent to Srikrishna Museum and is located about 1.5 km from Kurukshetra railway station. …show more content…
Ghose retired in the month of August. At that time just the super structure of the building of KPSC was erected. Now it was the responsibility of Shri I.K. Mukherjee, DG NCSM in 1997 under whose leadership the project was completed in the year 2000. The story behind the centre’s establishment is quite interesting. In the early 1990s, both Dr Saroj Ghose and Shri I.K. Mukherjee had visited a panorama museum based on the theme of ‘Battle of Borodino’ in Moscow. They wanted to create a panorama museum on the ‘Battle of Kurukshtra’ in India. When Dr Ghose approached Shri Bhajan Lal, CM of Haryana in 1995, he welcomed the proposal and arranged a suitable place adjacent to the existing Sri Krishna Museum in