Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium

Local nameJawaharlal Nehru Planetarium
LocationBangalore, India

Nehru Planetariums are the five planetariums in India, named after India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. These are located in Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune and Bangalore, plus there is a Jawahar Planetarium in Prayagraj.

The Nehru Planetarium in New Delhi is situated on the grounds of Teen Murti Bhavan, officially known as 'Nehru Memorial Museum and Library', earlier the official residence of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru and now a museum in his memory. In 1964, the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund was set up to promote his ideas and it undertook to build the Nehru Planetarium with its aim being the promotion of astronomy education. This planetarium, like its namesake in Mumbai, was also inaugurated by Smt. Indira Gandhi on 6 February 1984. One of the major attractions of this place is the Soyuz T-10 which carried India's first cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma to space, along with his space suit and mission journal.

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehru_Planetarium

Official website http://www.taralaya.org/contact.htm

Email info@taralaya.org

Phone +91 80 2220 3234

Address Sri. T. Chowdaiah Road, High Grounds, Bangalore 560001, Karnataka, India

Coordinates 12°59'5.486" N 77°35'22.34" E

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