BIRLA
AUDITORIUM JAIPUR & CONFERENCE HALL JAIPUR
Birla Auditorium is located in Jaipur,
India. This auditorium is one of the most famous venues of
the city. It hosts some of the renowned international events
and exhibits. The exhibition center boasts of its
multifunctional and flexible areas and of its capability to
host different kinds of events. So many visitors, organizer
and exhibitor gather at the exhibition center to take the
advantage of functional and flexible spaces build for them.
The participants are matching their footsteps with growing
needs of the industry. Birla Auditorium also organizes
cultural programs and festivals. The participants will get
very large parking space at the auditorium.
The main auditorium with a seating
capacity of 1350 people, is one of the largest auditoriums
in India, built to international conference standards.
The aesthetically designed BM Auditorium is a classic
mixture of old and contemporary Indian architecture with the
fresco highlighting traditional Rajasthani art. It provides
a perfect ambience for holding national and international
scientific, industrial and cultural meets.
Besides the main auditorium, there are several conference
halls and seminar rooms, with a capacity of 40 to 400
persons, for parallel sessions and group discussions, or
small meetings.A
very famous Conference centre in
Jaipur is B.M Birla Auditorium and Convention Centre. It is
located in the heart of Jaipur, sprawling 9.8 acre complex
which includes an interactive science museum, library, a
computer centre, an information processing, a processing
planetarium and an auditorium.
The Birla auditorium suitable for
international conferences standards, auditorium has a
seating capacity of 1350 people, its one of the largest
auditoriums in India. Its offers unique audio visual
education entertainment, auditorium is best location for
cultural programs, festivals, art drama performance and
trade show place.
Birla Planetarium
The M. P. Birla Planetarium started functioning from
September 29, 1962 as an educational, scientific and
research institution and was formally inaugurated on July 2,
1963 by the first Prime Minister of India Pandit Jawaharlal
Nehru. This was the second major Planetarium to be set up in
the commonwealth countries with London having a Planetarium
a few years earlier to the one in Calcutta then.
This was the first of its kind in India
and the largest in Asia. Syt. M. P. Birla was the driving
force behind this project. The Planetarium has been
established on a land (about an acre) leased by the West
Bengal Government. The Planetarium with all its assets had
been transferred to the Registered Society of “Birla
Institute of Fundamental Research”.
The M. P. Birla Planetarium, since its
inception, has designed and presented to the public and
students more than 350 astronomical projects dealing with
many facets of astronomy, astro-physics, Celestial
Mechanics, Space Science, History of astronomy,Centenaries
of famous Astronomers as well as mythology concerning stars
and planets. The Planetarium has also been conducting a
series of graded school programmes for children of various
age groups. Almost from the very beginning of this
institution, it has been conducting a Free Evening Course
inAstronomy. In the year 1993 it introduced a Post-Graduate
Diploma Course inAstronomy & Planetarium Sciences. In the
year 1999 the Planetarium joined hands with the Birla
Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and introduced a
new course called the M. Phil. Course in Astronomy &
Planetarium Sciences.
The M. P. Birla Planetarium has been
hosting and participating in several National and
International seminars in astronomy and connected fields and
has been regularly organizing astronomical expeditions for
the studies of Solar Eclipses and other Celestial events.
The Planetarium has also been organizing special lectures
and exhibitions in connection with centenaries of
astronomers like Galileo, Kepler, Tycho Brahe and others.
The Planetarium owns an astronomical observatory equipped
with a Celestron C-14 Telescope with accessories such as ST6
CCD Camera, Solar Filter etc.
The Planetarium has been regularly
bringing a scientific Journal called “The Journal of M. P.
Birla Planetarium” wherein appear contributed articles from
astronomers from India as well as from abroad. An editorial
board has been suitability set up for the assessment and
sensibility of the articles received for publication. In
recent years, the Planetarium has also brought out some
astronomical publications like “Bust Stories”, “A Brief
Introduction of Astronomy”, yearly astronomical
pocket-calendars and picture post-cards etc. The M. P. Birla
Planetarium was chosen as the venue for the 7th
International Planetarium Directors’ Congress in 1980.
The Planetarium is equipped with an
Electronics Laboratory for design and fabrication of
scientific equipment. In 1993, after two years of work, this
lab set up an Automation System for excecuting the special
effects and visuals during a planetarium show. One must come
and have a look to the Planeterium begore giving their
views.
Address: B M Birla Auditorium
Statue Circle, Jaipur-302001, India
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