National Museum of Natural History New Delhi

National Museum of Natural History is a tribute to India’s vast wealth of flora and fauna; it also aims at inculcating environmental conscience among the young Indians thereby making them more responsible towards the environment that they stand to accrue.

National Museum of Natural History was conceptualized by the Late Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi, who felt a strong need for a museum of such an order to commemorate the 25th year of Indian Independence in 1972. The Museum took a few years to be established and was declared open to the public on June 5, 1978. The chosen day for inauguration concurred with World Environment Day, no coincidence this since no other day could have represented more clearly the purpose of the Museum.

The adding years, apart from honing the purposes and objects of the Museum, have also yielded three additional galleries, a Discovery and Activity Room for young children.

National Museum of Natural History comprises four exhibit galleries- The Introduction of Natural History, Nature's Network Ecology, Conservation and Cell - The Basic Unit of Life. The first gallery on Natural History delves into the origin and the subsequent evolution of life. It also traces the threads of evolution of number of flora and fauna found in the country.

The adjoining gallery on Ecology provides visual knowledge on food chain, food web, the importance of plants in sustaining the ecological balance; the section also points out the hazards of pollution, depletion of wildlife, deforestation etc.

The third gallery on Conservation encompasses the subject of Conservation per se. The adverse consequences of deforestation could not have found a more vivid explanation. The models and the pictures in the Gallery have been designed in a manner that they are comprehensible to all.

The last gallery highlights on the importance of Cell- which is fundamental to all life on the planet. The gallery covers the entire physiological progression of cell. It also focuses on the function of cell in the normal functioning of the human body.

There are special tours arranged by qualified Educational Assistants at fixed timings; the timings being 10.30 am, 12.30 am and 4 pm daily. The Museum also boasts of vast collection of films on wildlife, ecology, conservation etc. It screens a movie everyday at 11 am and 3 pm in the Museum auditorium.

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