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Detailed explanation-1: -Space Museum opened at Hyderabad with ISRO Collaboration. With the collaboration of ISRO, BM Birla Science Centre at Hyderabad opened a Space Science Museum to the public to mark their Golden Jubilee of the Birla Archaeological and Cultural Research Institute (BACRI), the first private space museum in India.

Detailed explanation-2: -India’s first virtual space museum: On August 10, ISRO unveiled ‘SPARK’, India’s first virtual space museum, as part of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav celebration. S Somanath, chairman of ISRO, launched the virtual space museum for public use.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first science museum, Birla Industrial and Technological Museum (BITM), Kolkata under CSIR43, was opened on 2 May 1959. In July 1965, the second science museum of the country, the Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum (VITM) was opened in Bangalore.

Detailed explanation-4: -With interest in space among public zooming up courtesy the successful flight of the Chandrayaan-2 mission to the moon, India’s first Space Science Museum opened in Hyderabad.

Detailed explanation-5: -BENGALURU: Imagine experiencing live satellite launches held at Sriharikota’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Bengaluru.