{"id":8811,"date":"2013-03-14T12:17:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T06:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=8811"},"modified":"2013-03-14T12:17:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T06:47:14","slug":"museum-gets-a-3d-theatre-and-a-buggy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/museum-gets-a-3d-theatre-and-a-buggy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trivandrum: Museum gets a 3D theatre and a buggy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long break, the <strong>Children&#8217;s Park at the Museum compound<\/strong> has once again turned out to be a favourite recreation spot for children in city with the inauguration of 3D theatre.<\/p>\n<h3>Also Read:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Trivandrum Zoo may become home to Anaconda\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/trivandrum-zoo-may-become-home-to-anaconda\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trivandrum Zoo may become home to Anaconda<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"What links Trivandrum zoo to Life of Pi\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/what-links-trivandrum-zoo-to-life-of-pi\/\" target=\"_blank\">What links Trivandrum zoo to Life of Pi<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <strong>3D theatre<\/strong> was inaugurated by Museum and Zoos Minister P K Jayalakshmi on Tuesday. The Minister, along with Tourism Minister A.P Anil Kumar and K Muraleedharan MLA took a virtual tour under the ocean and was introduced to the world of the sharks and starfishes. \u00a0Children under 15 years of age will be able to take virtual journeys in 3D glasses to visit wildlife in jungles, mountains, plains and deserts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8863\" style=\"width: 519px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8863\" class=\" wp-image-8863 \" title=\"3d theatre museum\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2013\/03\/3d-theatre-museum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/03\/3d-theatre-museum.jpg 636w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/03\/3d-theatre-museum-621x466.jpg 621w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/03\/3d-theatre-museum-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The newly constructed Children&#8217;s Activity Centre on the Museum premises. Photo: Kaavya Pradeep Kumar , The Hindu<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The theatre which has a seating capacity of 37 was set up by Kerala State Electronics Development Corporation (KELTRON). It is equipped with a 65-inch LED flat screen with 7.1 surround sound.<\/p>\n<p>The 3D theatre is part of the Children\u2019s Activities Centre, located next to the Children\u2019s Park, which is still under construction. Children&#8217;s activity centre is spacious Baker-style building with all-in-all leisure area, where children can engage in reading activities.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8862\" style=\"width: 519px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8862\" class=\" wp-image-8862\" title=\"Photo: S. Mahinsha, The Hindu\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2013\/03\/buggy-trivandrum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/03\/buggy-trivandrum.jpg 636w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/03\/buggy-trivandrum-222x148.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: S. Mahinsha, The Hindu<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The launching of the &#8216;<strong>Buggy<\/strong>&#8216; also took place during the function. The ministers and the MLA then took a ride in the newly launched battery cars. <strong>Buggy is an eight seater battery powered vehicle for visitors to travel around the zoo premises.<\/strong> It has a top speed of 60Km per hour and is both noiseless and eco friendly. Last year, in September Tourism Minister A.P. Anil Kumar had test-driven the buggy.<\/p>\n<p>Three more such vehicles including one more 8-seater and two 14 seater buggies will be added to the crew by the end of this month.\u00a0 The vehicles have been acquired via the Small Industries Development Corporation (SIDCO) from a Chennai-based company.<\/p>\n<p>The buggy ride will cost Rs 50 per head while physically challenged people, children and senior citizens above 60 years have to pay only Rs 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long break, the Children&#8217;s Park at the Museum compound has once again turned out to be a favourite recreation spot for children in city with the inauguration of 3D theatre. Also Read: Trivandrum Zoo may become home to Anaconda What links Trivandrum zoo to Life of Pi The 3D theatre was inaugurated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-8811","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\/8811"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}