kolkata rare paintings musical instruments mughal miniatures scientific equipment diaries written by none other than jagadish chandra bose all these things and many more that have gathered dust for all these years will now be restored for posterity and put on display once acharya bhavan turns into a science heritage museum the first in the country in near future yes you got it right itll be something like william shakespeares house at stratfordonavon england or albert einsteins home in switzerlands berne which were transformed into museums years back the ministry of culture which had taken up the project has already roped in experts from the state museums of berlin to give shape to this personality museum bose had built acharya bhavan in 1902 and lived and worked in this house all his life his pathbreaking experiments on radio wave and plant life theories were partially conducted here it was at acharya bhavan that bose and lady abala bose played host to tagore romain rolland gb shaw acharya prafulla chandra ray swami vivekananda sister nivedita p c ray prasanta mahalanobis meghnad saha and the like some even had their favourite corners here as is evident from boses diaries and writings acharya bhavan that witnessed raging debates on bramho movement and the nationalist movement was the seat of bengal renaissance to be precise at present acharya bhavan is managed by a trust that bose himself had created in 1931 in 2009 during the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of bose the trust had requested the ministry of culture to help restore the building which is still a repository of huge historical material the ministry had assigned the indian national trust for art and cultural heritage intach for the restoration job intach was already on the job and had restored a large number of paintings by nandalal bose mughal miniatures and nicholas roerich when the pmo after scanning the list of rich memorabilia submitted by intach felt that the building should be converted into a science heritage museum intach which had on its earlier projects worked with heritage professionals from the state museums of berlin was asked to involve them in developing this museum the goethe institut a wing of max mueller bhavan is coordinating the project german experts monika zessnik and hans hurgen harass who have converted houses of famous personalities into public museums have already studied the house the history involved and the memorabilia to chalk out the line of action this massive fourstorey building is like the story of the great scientists life waiting to be retold over and over again you have great frescoes by indian and european masters on the walls carbed wooden ceilings laboratories stocked with instruments libraries containing handwritten diaries and manuscripts a virtual treasure trove waiting to start telling their wonderful stories said zessnik overwhelmed with the wealth she went through in the house as things have been planned visitors will be taken on a tour of the housemuseum complete with multimedia effect so that they