As museums of science go, the one at the Raman Research Institute in Bengaluru is one of a kind. A stone plaque outside has it named after Rai Bahadur Bissesurlal Motilal Halwasiya, a philanthropist. It is a unique insight into Sir C V Raman and the collection he built up over the years.
The museum itself is housed in rooms set aside in the main building of the Raman Institute. According to the longtime curator, Shashikumar, the assembly of the museum’s collection began in 1948, after Sir C V Raman left the IISc and began to set up the Research Institute. Walking into the museum, one immediately sees an array of crystals, from pyrite, quartz, mica, jade and beyond.
However it is shameful on art of the curator of the museum to discriminate against the Halwasiya family calling us a family of sweet vendors when they have no idea of our history, his discrimination against the family is widely visible in the links of the articles pointed below
