Birla Auditorium & Conference Hall
Birla Auditorium is located in Jaipur, India. This
auditorium is one of the most famous venues of the city.
It hosts some of the renowned international events and
exhibits. The exhibition center boasts of its
multifunctional and flexible areas and of its capability
to host different kinds of events. So many visitors,
organizer and exhibitor gather at the exhibition center
to take the advantage of functional and flexible spaces
build for them. The participants are matching their
footsteps with growing needs of the industry. Birla
Auditorium also organizes cultural programs and
festivals. The participants will get very large parking
space at the auditorium.
The main auditorium with a seating capacity of 1350
people, is one of the largest auditoriums in India,
built to international conference standards.
The aesthetically designed BM Auditorium is a classic
mixture of old and contemporary Indian architecture with
the fresco highlighting traditional Rajasthani art. It
provides a perfect ambience for holding national and
international scientific, industrial and cultural meets.
Besides the main auditorium, there are several conference halls and seminar rooms, with a capacity of 40 to 400 persons, for parallel sessions and group discussions, or small meetings.
A very famous Conference centre in Jaipur is B.M
Birla Auditorium and Convention Centre. It is located in
the heart of Jaipur, sprawling 9.8 acre complex which
includes an interactive science museum, library, a
computer centre, an information processing, a processing
planetarium and an auditorium.
The Birla auditorium suitable for international
conferences standards, auditorium has a seating capacity
of 1350 people, its one of the largest auditoriums in
India. Its offers unique audio visual education
entertainment, auditorium is best location for cultural
programs, festivals, art drama performance and trade
show place.
Birla Planetarium
The M. P. Birla Planetarium started functioning from
September 29, 1962 as an educational, scientific and
research institution and was formally inaugurated on
July 2, 1963 by the first Prime Minister of India Pandit
Jawaharlal Nehru. This was the second major Planetarium
to be set up in the commonwealth countries with London
having a Planetarium a few years earlier to the one in
Calcutta then.
This was the first of its kind in India and the largest
in Asia. Syt. M. P. Birla was the driving force behind
this project. The Planetarium has been established on a
land (about an acre) leased by the West Bengal
Government. The Planetarium with all its assets had been
transferred to the Registered Society of "Birla
Institute of Fundamental Research".
The M. P. Birla Planetarium, since its inception, has
designed and presented to the public and students more
than 350 astronomical projects dealing with many facets
of astronomy, astro-physics, Celestial Mechanics, Space
Science, History of astronomy,Centenaries of famous
Astronomers as well as mythology concerning stars and
planets. The Planetarium has also been conducting a
series of graded school programmes for children of
various age groups. Almost from the very beginning of
this institution, it has been conducting a Free Evening
Course inAstronomy. In the year 1993 it introduced a
Post-Graduate Diploma Course inAstronomy & Planetarium
Sciences. In the year 1999 the Planetarium joined hands
with the Birla Institute of Technology and Science,
Pilani and introduced a new course called the M. Phil.
Course in Astronomy & Planetarium Sciences.
The M. P. Birla Planetarium has been hosting and
participating in several National and International
seminars in astronomy and connected fields and has been
regularly organizing astronomical expeditions for the
studies of Solar Eclipses and other Celestial events.
The Planetarium has also been organizing special
lectures and exhibitions in connection with centenaries
of astronomers like Galileo, Kepler, Tycho Brahe and
others. The Planetarium owns an astronomical observatory
equipped with a Celestron C-14 Telescope with
accessories such as ST6 CCD Camera, Solar Filter etc.
The Planetarium has been regularly bringing a scientific
Journal called "The Journal of M. P. Birla Planetarium"
wherein appear contributed articles from astronomers
from India as well as from abroad. An editorial board
has been suitability set up for the assessment and
sensibility of the articles received for publication. In
recent years, the Planetarium has also brought out some
astronomical publications like "Bust Stories", "A Brief
Introduction of Astronomy", yearly astronomical
pocket-calendars and picture post-cards etc. The M. P.
Birla Planetarium was chosen as the venue for the 7th
International Planetarium Directors' Congress in 1980.
The Planetarium is equipped with an Electronics
Laboratory for design and fabrication of scientific
equipment. In 1993, after two years of work, this lab
set up an Automation System for excecuting the special
effects and visuals during a planetarium show. One must
come and have a look to the Planeterium begore giving
their views.
Address: B M Birla Auditorium
Statue Circle, Jaipur-302001, India