Kerala University plans Nobel museum to encourage research

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala University has proposed to build a Nobel museum on Kariavattom campus to commemorate Nobel Prize for extensive research works and outstanding contributions, first of its kind in the country.

This was one of the components in the proposal for upgrading the university into an international centre of excellence in academics and research it submitted to the state government on Friday for administrative sanction.

The proposal was submitted to the state government after Syndicate of the Kerala University which met on February 8 approved Rs 221.19 crore proposal for submission to the KIIFB for funding to upgrade the university into an international centre of excellence in academics and research.

The museum complex will work as a centre of true motivation for aspiring student. There are a total of 935 Nobel laureates -- 908 persons and 27 organisations who have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2018 under six categories:  physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace and economics.

The Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, was opened in 2001, during the 100th anniversary of Nobel Prize.

The coordinator of the proposal,K.S.Chandrasekar, professor at IMK, told Deccan Chronicle that permanent display included many artefacts donated by Nobel Laureates, presented together with personal life stories.

 The Museum offered exhibitions, films, theatre plays, and debates related to science; in addition to its bistro and shop. There will be a gallery of inventions and discoveries of Nobel winners, their lectures while accepting the Nobel Prize, their other contributions and books, said Dr Chandrasekhar.  It will be a first of its kind museum which will attract researchers and students from across the world, he said