{"id":13566,"date":"2013-09-09T15:16:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T09:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=13566"},"modified":"2013-09-09T16:51:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T11:21:52","slug":"natural-history-museum-to-open-on-september-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/natural-history-museum-to-open-on-september-10th\/","title":{"rendered":"Renovated Natural History Museum to open on September 10th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Promising a visual treat to the visitors, the renovated Natural History Museum <\/a>here in the Museum complex in the city will be re-opened during Onam season.\u00a0 Museum will be inaugurated on September 10 by Zoo and Museum Minister P K Jayalakshmi and Minister V S Sivakumar.<\/p>\n

The renovation work was undertaken with the aim of making the Natural History Museum an educational centre that would appeal to school students who form a major part of their clientele.<\/p>\n

Marking the first phase of the renovation is ornate woodwork which extends from ceiling to floor and the elaborate polished wood. The entrance to the museum got a bright teak wood panelling that is marked by floral designs and traditional carvings of birds. The wood panelling work is done by SIDCO<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Renovated Natural History Museum, Photo Credits: The Hindu<\/p><\/div>\n

Arrangements and presentation of some of the exhibits were improved by attaching them with better and more informative signage, giving the museum a prehistoric quality. Models of two big dinosaur species \u2014 the Tyrannosaurus<\/strong> and the Yangchuanosaurus<\/strong> were also restored and have been placed in museum grounds along with signboards denoting the features of the species. The construction, of the new enclosure of the \u2018permineralised<\/strong>\u2019 remains of what once stood as trees, has been carried out at a total cost of Rs. 1.62 crores.<\/p>\n

In addition to the renovation works, Zoo will get two new 14-seater buggies<\/strong>. The buggies were introduced to ensure that visitors, particularly the elderly, enjoyed their visits to the sprawling zoo. At present, the zoo operates two 8-seater battery powered cars.<\/p>\n

Natural History Museum has more than 2,500 exhibits<\/strong>, some of which dates back from pre-historic era. When the museum is opened to the public, it will be one of the major tourist attractions in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Promising a visual treat to the visitors, the renovated Natural History Museum here in the Museum complex in the city will be re-opened during Onam season.\u00a0 Museum will be inaugurated on September 10 by Zoo and Museum Minister P K Jayalakshmi and Minister V S Sivakumar. The renovation work was undertaken with the aim of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-13566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}