On the occasion of National Science Day and as a closing ceremony of the exhibition ‘Superbugs: The End of Antibiotic?’, Science City Kolkata organised various programs like Regional Workshop on AMR and Superbugs, Hands-on demonstration on Health & Hygiene, Open House Quiz and Sit & Draw Competition for students and underprivileged children. Shri Subhabrata Chaudhuri, […]

Today Science City, Kolkata organised a Puppet Show “Antibiotics Use: Tina’s Story” in the open air. This show portrayed the story of a little girl Tina. How she fell ill and got wrong medicines from the local pharmacist which resulted in multi drug resistance illness was presented in the show. What are the consequences of […]

Dr. Saroj Ghose, the Father of Science Centre Movement in India turns 85 on September 1, 2020. The doyen of science popularization movement not only in India but acclaimed internationally, Dr. Ghose is known as museum maker. Way back in 1960s, he dreamt of taking science to the millions in the country through Science Museums […]

Science City, Kolkata, a unit of National Council of Science Museums (NCSM,) organized a science workshop to create awareness about “Gasses in our Nature” for the primary school students on February 25, 2020. The programme was organised in collaboration with the renowned NGO ‘Child Rights and You’ (CRY). Students were initially astonished to see the […]

A Panel Discussion on ‘Novel Coronavirus’ was organized at North Bengal Science Centre (NBSC), Siliguri in association with North Bengal Medical College & Hospital (NBMC&H) on Feb. 12, 2020. Some of the renowned doctors of NBMC&H made people aware about the details of this disease to combat this health emergency. The recent outbreak of Novel […]

Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai in collaboration with Haffkine Institute for Training, Research and Testing, Mumbai organised hand washing workshop cum demonstrations from January 20 – 25, 2020. In all 16 hand wash demonstrations were organised for Public and Municipal Corporation Schools and College students, underprivileged children, general visitors etc. Total 727 students and visitors took […]

A Panel Discussion on “Curbing Coronavirus” was organised by RegionalScience Centre & Planetarium, Calicut, a unit of National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), on February 10, 2020. Noted doctors and specialists who have first-hand experience in containing it were invited. Dr. A. S. Anoop Kumar, Consultant, Department of critical medicine, Baby Memorial Hospital, Kozhikode, said […]

Audience research Programme was conducted at Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai for focus groups such as school/college students and underprivileged children etc. with a purpose to learn the apprehension of the theme and what message they take with them. During January 3 workshops were conducted for focus groups such as underprivileged children, School students, Science College Students […]

As a part of public awareness and educational programme of the exhibition, 6 street plays on the topic “Superbugs: The End of antibiotics?” were organised at the local railway stations of Andheri, Bandra and Dadar as per the following details. 2 street plays were organised at Andheri local stations on January 3, 2020. The street […]

A popular science lecture on “Superbugs & Antibiotics: The present & future” was organised at the Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai on January 23, 2020. The lecture was delivered by Dr. Rahul Tambe, Senior Consultant Internal Medicine Nanavati Supern specialty Hospital, Mumbai. In his lecture, he talked about various infectious diseases that account for the loss […]