Patna: The ‘Evolution Gallery’ at the Shri Krishna Science Centre (SKSC), which has been undergoing a complete makeover is likely to be thrown open for visitors by April this year, with a new avatar and modernised exhibits.
Altogether 24 exhibits are designed by the experts of the Centre with technical support of the National Council of Science Museum (NCSM), by utilising the funds to the tune of Rs 70 lakh.The fully air-conditioned gallery named as ‘Hall of Evolution’, will be divided into different segments of evolution, including humans (the first upright primate through to modern humans), animals, birds, reptiles, life, and plants. It will be spread over 450 square metre area.
According to the experts, the proposed exhibits will be in the form of visual panels, audio-visual projection, touch screen kiosks, display of specimens, and diorama (a model representing a scene with three-dimensional figures).
Amitabh, project director of the SKSC, said the gallery will be ready by April-mid 2024 as the civil work has been completed and the work on the installation of cabinet is likely to begin by this month.
“By February-end, we will start arranging the exhibits, which have been designed for the gallery. The major portion of the gallery is dedicated to human evolution. For the specimen display, we are going to procure the replica of skulls of Dryopithecus, Ramapithecus, Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis and Homo Sapien. Some agencies prepared models of the seven stages of human evolution. Specimens of birds will also be displayed, the early stages of birds that extinct with time,” Amitabh said.
He told this newspaper on Saturday that the vast topics like human, bird, animal, and reptile evolution will be displayed through the digital projection system to give depth knowledge to the visitors. “People can also see the stories on visual panels and touch screen display,” he added.
The experts are also preparing two dioramas depicting the research study-cum-lab rooms of Charles Darwin, known as the architect of the theory of evolution, and an American chemist Stanley Miller, who experimented that explain what occurred on primitive Earth billions of years ago. A dummy model of his apparatus will also be set up at the gallery. The first diorama will be 10×12 feet while the second one will be 5×6 feet.
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Altogether 24 exhibits are designed by the experts of the Centre with technical support of the National Council of Science Museum (NCSM), by utilising the funds to the tune of Rs 70 lakh.The fully air-conditioned gallery named as ‘Hall of Evolution’, will be divided into different segments of evolution, including humans (the first upright primate through to modern humans), animals, birds, reptiles, life, and plants. It will be spread over 450 square metre area.
According to the experts, the proposed exhibits will be in the form of visual panels, audio-visual projection, touch screen kiosks, display of specimens, and diorama (a model representing a scene with three-dimensional figures).
Amitabh, project director of the SKSC, said the gallery will be ready by April-mid 2024 as the civil work has been completed and the work on the installation of cabinet is likely to begin by this month.
“By February-end, we will start arranging the exhibits, which have been designed for the gallery. The major portion of the gallery is dedicated to human evolution. For the specimen display, we are going to procure the replica of skulls of Dryopithecus, Ramapithecus, Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis and Homo Sapien. Some agencies prepared models of the seven stages of human evolution. Specimens of birds will also be displayed, the early stages of birds that extinct with time,” Amitabh said.
He told this newspaper on Saturday that the vast topics like human, bird, animal, and reptile evolution will be displayed through the digital projection system to give depth knowledge to the visitors. “People can also see the stories on visual panels and touch screen display,” he added.
The experts are also preparing two dioramas depicting the research study-cum-lab rooms of Charles Darwin, known as the architect of the theory of evolution, and an American chemist Stanley Miller, who experimented that explain what occurred on primitive Earth billions of years ago. A dummy model of his apparatus will also be set up at the gallery. The first diorama will be 10×12 feet while the second one will be 5×6 feet.
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