B M Birla Planetarium — Attraction in Jaipur Municipal Corporation

Pathetic experience. First they said mobile phones are not allowed during the show.. We accepted and my students were sitting in the planetarium as they were 20 min before the show time... So while there was no show or anyone else was there.. Students started taking some pictures as they wanted to share it with their parents(first time they visited at such a place) the guard shouted,off the mobile phones that time.

Then a group of 30 students came, and that guard again shouted at everyone and asked to sit only on one side of the Hall why? We have paid for the seat and there was no seat no. Allocated even our students didn't ask for 50% off also(paid 80/- pee head) then who the hell was that guard to shout on them...? AC was poor...suffocated environment..also.that guard shouted at another group to leave ASAP..even those girls were in waiting line for the washroom..he asked everyone to leave....Very poor management.. Pls...

One of the major attractions in the city of Jaipur, the Birla Planetarium is an educational, scientific and research institution. Since its inception, the Planetarium has been deciphering different facets of astronomy to the general public. An excellent institute to understand the lesser known world of stars and galaxies, the Birla Planetarium has been hosting several National and international seminars in the concerned field.

Reputed subjects like astrophysics, space science, history of astronomy and celestial mechanics can be all covered by just sitting in the round dome, inside the magnificent Planetarium. Highlighting features about the Birla Planetarium include the regular sky-shows about the concepts of astronomy. Apart from the dome, the Planetarium complex also houses an astronomical observatory which has a powerful Celestron C-14 telescope. Entry...

The M. P. Birla Planetarium started functioning from September 29, 1962 as an educational, scientific and research institution and was formally inaugurated on July 2, 1963 by the first Prime Minister of India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. This was the second major Planetarium to be set up in the commonwealth countries with London having a Planetarium a few years earlier to the one in Calcutta then. This was the first of its kind in India and the largest in Asia. Syt. M. P. Birla was the driving force behind this project. The Planetarium has been established on a land (about an acre) leased by the West Bengal Government. The Planetarium with all its assets had been transferred to the Registered Society of “Birla Institute of...