You may not find hill stations, mountains, many natural settings in the state of Gujarat but there is something unique about this state. It is a state of vibrant colours; people here are very friendly and speak an affectionate language known as Gujarati. Ahmedabad is the most popular city of Gujarat. This city gives you a chance to explore unique places unlike natural settings as it has some extraordinary sites to explore apart from historic architectural monuments. These include textile museum, vintage car museum, Lalbhai museum and not to forget a very unique Utensil museum. You may be surprised to know what a utensil museum is. Yes Utensil museum one of its kind & the only utensil museum in the entire state of Gujarat. In this article I will take you to this out of the line museum of old utensils located at the outskirts of Ahmedabad city. The full name of this museum is Veechar Utensil Museum which exhibits a rare collection of old utensils used in India collected from different parts of the country.This exclusive Utensil museum is the result of efforts of Mr. Surendra Patel who established it on 27th April in the year 1981 three years after the opening of Vishala restaurant in the same premises. Mr. Patel is an interior designer by profession. He gives credit for successfully establishing this unique museum to Mr. Jyontindra Jain who is a famous Anthropologist. He even wrote the catalogue for the Museum himself in order to preserve the cultural heritage and tradition of India. Today Mr. Patel will be proud to create Veechar utensil museum which the only museum in the world to exhibit rich and precious collection of utensils belonging to different era and parts of the country.As we all know Indians are foodie and with a diverse cultural and ethnic background we all have different food habits depending on the location we are living in. Thus the food preparation and serving style is also different in different parts of country. That is why the utensils used for preparing food are also diverse. You get to see the vast collection of utensils belonging to various ethnic communities of India at one place and to explore such diversity in food habits is amazing. Here you get to see in display more than three thousand utensils used for various stages of food preparations and serving purposes by people from different states. The marvellous collection of utensils include water storage pots, cooking utensils, serving utensils, rolling pins, spoons of different sizes & uses, big vessels for buttermilk churning, knives, nutcracker, storage utensils, special feeding cups used for infants, havan kunds used by tantric, several potteries, terracotta and wooden articles used in Indian households. By exploring this museum you get to know the lifestyle insights of people belonging to diverse locations.The Veechar Utensil museum which is a part of Vishala restaurant is worth exploring. The restaurant here serves authentic Gujarati delicacies that too in an ambiance of an Indian village with open air seating arrangement, folk performances and traditionally dressed staff members. The food is really good.TimingsThe Veechar museum is open on all days except Mondays and the timings are 10.30 am till 5.30 pm.Entrance feeThere is no entrance fee charged here.CameraPhotography is not allowed in the museum.AddressVishala Restaurant & Veechar museumOpp. Vasana Tol Naka,Ahmedabad-380055.Website: www.vishala.comRuchi Mahajan