My youngest brother Madhav and his family came to NJ for few days during their year end holidays. We took his kids and my grandson to Liberty Science Center.
It is a beautiful, well maintained, very spacious building with four floors. It has lot of interactive exhibits. It was established in 1993. It has largest IMAX Dome theater, numerous educational resources,computer driven engineering art work which are of interest to children aged 4 to 10 years.
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After seeing various panels of energy oil exploration models, robots and a beautiful mini zoo with lot of fascinating creatures like macaws, hippo sculls snake, shed turtle shells etc and another very interesting feature of this exhibit was Rubik Cubes exhibit, where a programmed robot solved the Rubik cube puzzle in minutes. There was an interactive music room where kids could play all the instruments and have fun.
After that visit I felt that such hands on science centres if established in India would be very beneficial to kids as it helps them to practically see and experience science theories in their books. But I feel establishing and maintaining such a centre is very tough with the highly corrupt bureaucracy. And a privatizing such a place would make it inaccessible to common man. Educational centres like these will be immensely benefit our future generations.
