Our 12 years of journey with Education has made us realise that the steps to knowledge acquisition are: Exposure, Inquisitiveness, Experimentation, Questioning, Seeking answers, Conceptual understanding / Assimilation, Compiling and Presentation.

For rural children, the first step is itself a barrier, as they have very limited exposure, confined by their surroundings. But, while physically, they cannot be moved great distances, virtually they can. Sitting in their own classrooms, they can enter a virtual world in 3D, that will take them to a Science Museum to understand how an aeroplane flies or how are tornadoes formed, OR to Agra to see Tajmahal and understand its History, OR to a Natural History Museum to study evolution? And all in their own language.

Virtual Museum School (ViMS) is a project designed by OASiS – A Social Innovations Lab, to take the Museum based teaching approach, to children in all corners of the world. It is designed to take the children out of dingy low lit classrooms, to the world of Museums, Heritage sites and Nature, where they understand different subjects and topics, by experiencing them.