B. M. Birla Planetarium is a large planetarium
in Chennai
providing a virtual tour of the night sky and holding cosmic shows on a specially perforated hemispherical aluminium
inner dome. It is located at Kotturpuram
in the Periyar Science and Technology Centre
campus which houses eight galleries, namely, Physical Science, Electronics and Communication, Energy, Life Science, Innovation, Transport, International Dolls and Children and Materials Science, with over 500 exhibits. Built in 1988 in the memory of the great industrialist and visionary of India B. M. Birla
, it is the most modern planetarium in India
. There are two other Birla Planetariums in India, viz., the one in Kolkata
known as M. P. Birla Planetarium
and the other
in Hyderabad
, Tiruchirapalli
and Coimbatore
.
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