IIT Madras Heritage Tour.
This tour offers you an immersive experience of the IIT Madras campus, which is known for its greenery and wildlife. It takes you to various structures of heritage importance to IIT Madras and ends with a visit to the Heritage Centre of the institute.
IIT Madras is the third of the IITs which are known as institutes of national importance. Located in the southern part of the city, the forests of IIT Madras campus support a population of spotted deer, the endangered blackbuck and many other mammals.
The IIT Madras tours are guided rides through the campus. The guides are Heritage Centre personnel and IIT Madras students. A few of the places that the tour takes you past is the Gajendra Circle, Manohar Watsa Stadium, Open Air Theatre (OAT) and the first buildings on campus, Building Sciences Block (BSB) and the Central Workshop.
At the Heritage Centre there will be a movie screening of Sripad Sridhar’s ‘Journey to Eminence’ and viewing of archival photographs of IITM.
The tours will be held on 31 August 2024 and 1 September 2024.
The time slots available of these days are 7:00 AM – 8:30 AM and 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Registration is mandatory for participation.
Register: https://forms.gle/qNrhvjoYAPawFFge7