The National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) will set up the first national museum of agricultural sciences in collaboration with the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) by 2002. The museum, coming up in ICAR's New Delhi campus will house exhibits and hands-on models on a range of themes from the historical perspective of agriculture to its future, NCSM Director General Ingit Mukherjee told PTI. While ICAR will provide the building infrastructutsaw lwjgra ver 23,000 sq ft, NCSM will conceive and set up the museum with projects and exhibits worth Rs five crore, he said.
“We have signed an MOU with ICAR on setting up the museum, which will be the first of its kind in the country,” Mukherjee said. “The scientific practices of agriculture and what happened in the Indian sub-continent, the various agricultural calendars, medieval and mughal agricultural manners will be the other wares of the museum,” Mukherjee said. “The horticultural and landscaping practices came up vibrantly during the Moghul era and that would form interesting exhibits,” he added. Bureau Report