INDIA’S FIRST OPEN ROCK MUSEUM

Jan. 7, 2022

Union Minister of Science & Technology inaugurated India’s first unique “Rock” Museum and later addressed the Hyderabad Scientists at the CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI).

About:

  • The Open Rock Museum, set up with the aim to educate and enlighten the masses about several lesser known facts, displays around 35 different types of rocks from different parts of India with ages ranging from 3.3 Billion years to around 55 Million years of the Earth’s history.

  • These rocks also represent the deepest part of the earth up to 175 kms of distance from the surface of the earth.

  • “Big Earth data” occupies the strategic high ground in the era of knowledge economies and India is fully exploiting this new frontier contributing to the advancement of Earth science.

Source : PIB