The Bee Museum received a facelift during the month of May 2010. A Nature Discovery Centre was added to the existing information display. It is a part of the Nature Discovery Centre Initiative of Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore. The display materials include posters on endemic animals, birds and plants of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. Interactive display materials that talk about the issues that confront the biosphere reserve are a part of the centre. Maps showing the presence of mammals across the landscape over a time scale are a special feature. Paintings and other graphical displays are also a part of the Nature Discovery Centre. Maps pertaining to the ancestral domains of the adivasis in the region are to be placed soon. More material will be added in due course of time. The information displayed compliments the Bee Museum that has information on the honey bees, their ecology, landscape and people.
The centre was formally inaugurated on the 13th of May 2010 by the Collector of Nilgiris Ms. Archana Patnaik in the presence of Dr. Rajiv Srivatsava, Field Director, Mudumalai Tiger Reserve and the DFO, Nilgiris South Division.
