The International Travelling Exhibition “Vaccines Injecting Hope” was inaugurated at Raman Science Centre & Planetarium, Nagpur, by Dr. Raj Gajbhiye, Dean, Government Medical College and Hospital, Nagpur, in the august presence of Dr. Atul Vaidya, Director, CSIR–National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur, Shri. A. D. Choudhury, DG, NCSM, and Shri Samarendra Kumar, DDG, NCSM, on August 5, 2023, and was on display there till December 31, 2023. A specially designed Mobile Science Exhibition Bus which will travel to nearby areas of each venue to raise awareness about the importance of vaccines in saving human lives was also flagged off from the centre.

Conceptualized and Developed by National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), in collaboration with Science Museum Group, London, with support from Wellcome, UK, ICMR, British Council India, and other research and scientific organisations in India, the exhibition houses sections on ‘The Arrival of New Virus’, ‘Designing a New Vaccine’, ‘Trials, Results and Approvals’, ‘Scaling Up and Mass Production’, ‘Vaccine Rollout’, ‘Living with COVID’ and tells the story of the global effort to find new ways to develop vaccines at pandemic speed and look at vaccinations more broadly with a historical and contemporary view. The exhibition was initially inaugurated at the National Science Centre, Delhi, on November 15, 2022 and was on display there till June 18, 2023.