Aspiring Einsteins fired up by scientific learning and research have an option now, that of leaving their online worlds and stepping into the Nehru Science Centre in Worli. The Centre, which was once part of a swathe of Worli infrastructure that had been taken over as COVID care centres, is reopening for the public today.

Going gradual

The COVID facility, built on a portion of the mammoth 11 acre Science Centre has long been dismantled. "Now, we await the public," said S M Bani, Library Officer of the Centre. He added, "It will be a gradual, progressive opening, not every facility within the Centre's campus will open at once. We have a theatre where Science films are shown. The capacity is 195 seats but we plan to keep it to 50 seats. Our main visitors were schoolchildren and tourists, that demographic may change with few tourists and schools closed," said Bani.