The First Metro Museum of South Asia, in fact the first modern museum, unique in its kind in the world, as it is in a subway station in operation, is in the station Patel Chowk New Delhi Metro.
We expected to tell the story of New Delhi Metro, their development and their influence on public transport.
Is that Delhi Metro is the most chosen to travel by residents and visitors to the city, was the first modern public transport in India, and currently is a fast, reliable, comfortable and secure in a city known for its chaotic traffic and coexistence of different modes of transport on the surface.
The Delhi Metro, although it started in 1995, has a rich history that begins more than thirty years ago with the drafting of which was the intervention of the largest urban India in the transport sector since independence. Delhi one of the world's most congested cities, and metro Delhi uses the latest technology to create one of the most advanced in the world.
Metro several museums in the world, they can be found in cities of the United States, Japan and some European cities, but the Delhi Metro Museum is unique in the world that operates within a station that was built in the short time of two months.
Here you can enjoy a collection of panels, historical photographs and exhibits that show the thirty-two years of work it took to move from the drawing boards to the phases operativas.También is a section on problems encountered during construction of the Metro and interesting facts, for example, that the station Chawri Bazaar is the second deepest part of the world, or the first trading day of the subway, went to 1.2 million people Delhi over six seasons.
The Museum exhibits some animations showing how the machines work drills, and there are the usual mannequins wearing uniforms of the staff of Metro with a description of their duties, while models of stations with all their progress.
If you want to bring some memories back home after visiting this amazing MuseumThe store has pens, keychains and books.
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