India’s First Open Rock Museum

India’s First Open Rock Museum has been inaugurated in the campus of the CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) in Hyderabad. The Museum has been set up with an aim to educate and enlighten the masses about several lesser-known facts about rocks. The museum displays around 35 different types of rocks from different parts of India with ages ranging from 3.3 Billion years to around 55 Million years of the Earth’s history.

Source: EPIC January 2022