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Established in 1972 and opened in 1978, the first museum functioned under the Ministry of Environment and Forests of the government of India. The museum was situated on Barakhamba Road at Tansen Marg in central New Delhi, near the Connaught Place metro station. On 26 April 2016, the museum building and its entire collection were destroyed by a fire. Following a negative government report in 2012 regarding the old building's poor state of maintenance, in July 2015, plans were made to relocate the museum to a ₹ 2.50 billion ($39.4M, €36.4M, or £25.3M as of July 2015) building at Bhairon Marg, where The zoological park is close by, and so are the National Crafts Museum, Purana Qila and National Science Centre. Regional Museums of Natural History are located in Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Gangtok, Mysuru, and Sawai Madhopur.