First-of-its-kind in Uttar Pradesh, Natural History Museum to come up in March 2023

LUCKNOW: If you have interest in birds or animals that existed millions of years ago or species that are extinct or endangered, the upcoming Natural History Museum will be the place for you. Scheduled to open in March 2023 adjacent to the State Museum on zoo campus, the museum will be the first-of-its-kind in UP and have about 6,000 specimens of animals and birds collected by experts over the past 200 years from different places across the world.
This collection was lying in State Museum for a long time due to lack of space in the Natural History Gallery of museum.
It is only now that work to construct a separate museum for natural history has begun. It will be completed in 10 months. Though Rs 22 lakh was approved for the three-storey museum building and sanctioned in the 2019-20 state budget, the project got delayed due to the pandemic.
The museum will have five galleries showcasing specimens of mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds and aquatic animals in the form of dummies. Besides, skins, eggs, fossils and skeletons will be on display.
Visitors will be able to learn about animals that are now extinct, near extinction, rare, critically endangered or endangered as well as those commonly found.
The gallery will be digitised in a way that buttons attached to a screen in each section will help visitors hear the sounds made by the animal and more about them in an audio-visual format. The highlight will be a life-size working model of a dinosaur made on the principle of robotics.
Alshaz Fatmi, assistant director of State Museum and in charge of the Natural History Gallery, said, "Our motive is to provide a chance to everybody to feel connected to the environment. The infusion of modern technology and audio-visual medium will not just make the museum interactive, but also help visitors learn about exhibits."
Director of State Museum Anand Kumar Singh said, "There are several natural history museums in the country. The one in Lucknow will be the first in UP. Overall, there are four museums in the state: Personalia museum, archaeology museum, folk art museum and State Museum. A tribal museum is also under construction."
The museum will have five galleries showcasing specimens of mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds and aquatic animals in the form of dummies.
Besides, skins, eggs, fossils and skeletons will be on display. Visitors will be able to learn about animals that are now extinct, near extinction, rare, critically endangered or endangered as well as those commonly found.
The gallery will be digitised in a way that buttons attached to a screen in each section will help visitors hear the sounds made by the animal and more about them in an audio-visual format.
The highlight will be a life-size working model of a dinosaur made on the principle of robotics.
Alshaz Fatmi, assistant director of State Museum and in charge of the Natural History Gallery, said, "Our motive is to provide a chance to everybody to feel connected to the environment. The infusion of modern technology and audio-visual medium will not just make the museum interactive, but also help visitors learn about exhibits."
Director of State Museum Anand Kumar Singh said, "There are several natural history museums in the country. The one in Lucknow will be the first in UP. Overall, there are four museums in the state: Personalia museum, archaeology museum, folk art museum and State Museum. A tribal museum is also under construction."
The museum will have five galleries showcasing specimens of mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds and aquatic animals in the form of dummies. Besides, skins, eggs, fossils and skeletons will be on display.
Visitors will be able to learn about animals that are now extinct, near extinction, rare, critically endangered or endangered as well as those commonly found.
The gallery will be digitised in a way that buttons attached to a screen in each section will help visitors hear the sounds made by the animal and more about them in an audio-visual format. The highlight will be a life-size working model of a dinosaur made on the principle of robotics.
Alshaz Fatmi, assistant director of State Museum and in charge of the Natural History Gallery, said, "Our motive is to provide a chance to everybody to feel connected to the environment. The infusion of modern technology and audio-visual medium will not just make the museum interactive, but also help visitors learn about exhibits."
Director of State Museum Anand Kumar Singh said, "There are several natural history museums in the country. The one in Lucknow will be the first in UP. Overall, there are four museums in the state: Personalia museum, archaeology museum, folk art museum and State Museum. A tribal museum is also under construction."
The museum will have five galleries showcasing specimens of mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds and aquatic animals in the form of dummies.
Besides, skins, eggs, fossils and skeletons will be on display. Visitors will be able to learn about animals that are now extinct, near extinction, rare, critically endangered or endangered as well as those commonly found.
The gallery will be digitised in a way that buttons attached to a screen in each section will help visitors hear the sounds made by the animal and more about them in an audio-visual format.
The highlight will be a life-size working model of a dinosaur made on the principle of robotics.
Alshaz Fatmi, assistant director of State Museum and in charge of the Natural History Gallery, said, "Our motive is to provide a chance to everybody to feel connected to the environment. The infusion of modern technology and audio-visual medium will not just make the museum interactive, but also help visitors learn about exhibits."
Director of State Museum Anand Kumar Singh said, "There are several natural history museums in the country. The one in Lucknow will be the first in UP. Overall, there are four museums in the state: Personalia museum, archaeology museum, folk art museum and State Museum. A tribal museum is also under construction."