Saroj Ghose

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DG of NCSM

  • Founding Director General of the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) from 1979 to 1997
  • NCSM is an autonomous society under the Ministry of Culture

Awards

  • Padma Shri in 1989
  • Padma Bhushan in 2007
  • Served as a President of International Council of Museums (ICOM), Paris

Contribution

  • Father of India's science museum movement
  • He was the master mind behind the Town Hall museum, Kolkata, Parliament Museum, New Delhi and Rashtrapathi bhavan Museum, New delhi.

Last wishes

  • As per his wishes, his mortal remains are being donated to Washington University for scientific research
  • He breathed his last breath in Seattle , US in 19th, May, 2025
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