India’s first-ever Constitution Museum was inaugurated at O P Jindal Global University in Sonipat, Haryana. The museum highlights the philosophy, evolution, and importance of the Constitution and its makers with a series of illustrations and audio-visual interactive experiences. Scroll on to know all about this new interesting museum in Haryana.
Haryana Is Now Home To India’s First Constitution Museum
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Minister of Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal inaugurated the first-ever Constitution Museum of India in Sonipat, Haryana. The museum showcases one of the 1,000 photolithographic reproductions of the Constitution as its centrepiece.
The museum is curated by Anjchita B Nair and offers audio-visual interactive experiences to the visitors. According to The Indian Express, the museum also features an interactive ‘Ask Me Anything’ experience that allows visitors to ask Dr B R Ambedkar’s hologram questions. Besides that, it features a radio that lets you travel through time and broadcasts narratives of significant historical events from the 1940s.
You can also spot paintings of prominent judges and jurists and an entire gallery underscoring the 75-year journey of the Constitution of India through landmark judgments and amendments.
Here’s All You Need To Know About This Museum
At the Constitution Museum in Sonipat, you will also find mini busts of 300 members of the Constituent Assembly along with a bigger bust of B N Rau, a jurist who was instrumental in drafting the Indian Constitution. There is also an interesting semi-humanoid robot named S.A.M.V.I.D. here that gives the visitors a tour of the museum.
To give visitors an immersive experience, the museum allows them to take a photograph taking the oath that the leaders took at the stroke of midnight on August 14, 1947. That’s not all; there is a ‘Samvidhaan Theatre’ at the museum where people can watch documentaries and movies inspired by the Constitution.
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The Constitution Museum looks quite interesting! So, if you’re a history buff or someone who would like to know more about the history of our country and constitution, then do visit this museum soon.
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