Amid the rush of commuters and the rumble of arriving trains, commuters are taken on a different journey at the Supreme Court Metro Station, offering a peek at howDelhi Metro keeps the city moving.Tucked inside the metro station, the city’s lone metro museum traces the over-two-decade long journey of Delhi Metro through tunnels, trains and engineering challenges. Spread over 12,000 sq ft in its first phase, the space doubles as an educational and recreational hub. The main draw is a full-scale train simulator that recreates a metro driver’s cabin, allowing visitors to expe-rience what it feels like to operate a train. Another highlight is a working model of a running train, detailing underground and elevated sections, including bridges and viaducts.Twelve-year-old Anushka Sud, who recently visited the museum, said the experience made her rethink what goes into building such a vast system. “It felt like I was actually driving a train beneath the city, with tunnels and bridges coming alive before me. The simulator made the experience thrilling, and the models helped me understand how everything works.”
Other highlights include a Digital Augmented Reality display, an interactive touch-screen route map, an interactive video screen, touch-screen quizzes about metro construction and a mock metro tunnel of 28×12 ft to provide an educational playground for students. “Working models of Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) and Launching Girders give a hands-on look at how the city’s underground and elevated tracks were built. In real life, these “mechanical moles” weigh over 400 tonnes and can dig through solid rock,” said a DMRC official.A section of the museum documents how Delhi Metro’s Phase I was completed nearly three years ahead of schedule, a rare achievement in large infrastructure projects worldwide. Another gallery honours E Sreedharan, the project’s chief architect.Since its opening on Dec 17 last year, the museum has attracted around 15,000 visitors (data till Feb 10, 2026). The museum has higher footfalls at weekends, with a surge of 2.5% to 3%, than on other days. “For just Rs 10, any visitor can now journey through the past, present and future of the Delhi Metro,” said the official. He added that the metro museum is associated with Museums Association of India (MAI).The Delhi Metro Museum traces its origins to 2008 when the idea of chronicling the journey of India’s most advanced urban transit system was first conceived. On Dec 31, 2008, the country’s first-ever Metro Rail Museum was inaugurated at Patel Chowk Metro Station, marking a historic milestone as the only such facility in the entire South Asian region. However, the museum at Patel Chowk was closed after a bigger facility opened at the Supreme Court Metro Station.
