2022
Hello Local Guides
Ever thought that a wasteland can be turned into beautiful park/ museum?
Well today I want to share about this museum called Atal Smruti Udhyan, which is made in the memory of Prime Minister of India in the 90's Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ji. This place depicts the life journey and have collection of literature and poems written by him.
This place is built on a open space which was earlier a waste land.
Last year due to COVID the place was shut almost for 10months and now they have re-opened.
The thing that fascinated me was the wheelchair entrance and a wheelchair at the entrance.
In India I have noticed many government places / banks usually have Accessibility features.
Not only the entrance but the whole muesme is made ideal for all.
There were braille discriptions and text description in English, Hindi and Marathi near each object in the exhibition hall, They had headphones for listening to the poems and writings of Atal Ji. 
I was also stunned by the use of technology like Augmented Reality for fun quiz game where 4 players participate and questions are asked based on the documentary shown in Ampitheater. The game is played using tabs and we can see ourselves on screen and Atal ji on screen sitting in between the participants and explaining the answers during the quiz.
3d printings the architecture to make a lookalike of parliament, prime ministers office and the beautiful library with books in different regional and English language. There are collection of medals and awards, papers and writing material related to journalism. Also a miniature of pokhran Nuclear test gorund is made
Staff was really helpful and assisted to share each and every place.
There are different seating area around which are made in open space, they also have drinking water and washroom.
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@FalguniP Ohh I would absolutely love this place, I mean I actually feel like I do from your post, but I would love to visit it someday too. I mean accessibility + tech + interesting history? I would be very happy hahah
Thank you for sharing about the accessibility side of it, and for telling us that many similar places in India also have accessibility features, it's very nice to know.
And of course, thank you for sharing with us the whole post! It seems like a great place.
This is a really nice place with facilities for people with all kinds of disabilities @FalguniP. Thanks for sharing this post with us.
If I may say so, last year I organized my meetup at Khijariya Bird Sanctuary. During my visit, I also visited the Bird Museum, which has a special facility for all types of disabled people who come here. Such as audio-visual gallery, wheelchair facility etc.
Bird museum with audio visual gallery.
