Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum

Worth seeing when you're there

• The steam locomotive outside the entrance, the bookend to the supersonic jet where the walk began.
• The aircraft displayed in the forecourt.
• Inside, the engine hall, the dinosaur, and the hands-on galleries that children refuse to leave.
• The Government Museum and Venkatappa Art Gallery next door, cheap and blissfully uncrowded.

A little history

Opened in 1962 to honour Sir M. Visvesvaraya, the engineer of the Krishna Raja Sagara dam and the pioneer of automated floodgates, whose birthday is India's Engineer's Day. The museum celebrates the moment Bengaluru pivoted into an industrial and scientific future.

Getting there, hours, cost

On Kasturba Road at the south-east corner of Cubbon Park; Cubbon Park Metro and MG Road Metro are both about ten minutes away on foot. The forecourt exhibits are visible from the road; the galleries are ticketed.

Open

9:30 AM to 6 PM, all days

Closed

Deepavali and Ganesha Chaturthi only

Cost

Ticketed museum

Note

Excellent with kids after the finish.

Hours change. Recheck official sources close to your date. Navigate here · Trail map

Nearby: eat, see, rest

• Government Museum, Kasturba Road Museum · 1 min on foot
• Venkatappa Art Gallery Gallery · 2 min on foot
• McDonald's, Kasturba Road Quick food · 3 min on foot
• Namma Bengaluru Aquarium Aquarium · 3 min on foot

More on the trail map and in A Cubbon Park walk.