The museum is spread out over three separate buildings with nine galleries dedicated to Popular Science, Electrical, Robotics, Automobile, Mathematics, Astronomy, Space, Computer, and Biomedical Sciences. These interactive galleries have controls allowing the visitor to actually work the exhibit to understand the concept on display. The park attached to the museum also has life-sized scientific artefacts which show the history and uses of various machines that we see in everyday life.
Also attached to the museum is a planetarium (Priyadarshini Planetarium), a 3D theatre, a night observatory, telescopes, a mobile science exhibition, the Ham Radio Station (a disaster management radio setup), the Astrovan (mobile astronomy education unit), a library, and a park dedicated as a play area for children. Of specific interest are the replicas of the shuttles and space crafts, the 'Nail Chair' exhibit (increased surface area reduces the pain felt from the pricking of nails. One can sit on a chair filled with nails and test this theory), 'Floating Ball', 'Infinite Well' and so on.
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The gallery houses various tools and objects that are used for space journeys. It also displays the history of space travel.
Indian achievements in the field of space travel have been displayed in this gallery through replicas.
The Infinite Well has mirrors that are placed on the inside, making it seem endless. This allows one to understand the theory of how placing two mirrors parallel to each other would result in a row of infinite images.
When pressure is exerted over an increased surface area the pain felt from the nails is non-existent. One can test this theory by sitting on the chair which is covered in nails.
This exhibit shows how gases that are required for medical operations and other such purposes are circulated and used.
The museum, along with the gallery, shows the developing stages of the computers we know today. The exhibit pictured above is a fourth generation computer.
The model on display is the Advanced Technology Vehicle (ATV), which is a sounding rocket, i.e a rocket used to probe the upper atmosphere of Earth.
Invented in 1947, the second generation computers were smaller than the first generation ones and easier to handle.
Children: INR 10/-
Group of students: INR 10/person (>5 students)
Trivandrum Airport: 5km
Central Bustand: 4km
PMG Bustop: Opposite to the museum