{"id":8682,"date":"2012-10-10T10:48:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T05:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bharatestates.com\/blog\/?p=8682"},"modified":"2020-06-15T04:39:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T23:09:35","slug":"lalbhai-dalpatbhai-museum-in-ahmedabad-outstanding-collection-of-arts-and-manuscripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bharatestates.com\/blog\/lalbhai-dalpatbhai-museum-in-ahmedabad-outstanding-collection-of-arts-and-manuscripts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum in Ahmedabad \u2013 Outstanding Collection of Arts and Manuscripts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lalbhai-Museum-Ahmedabad\"While exploring museums of Ahmedabad<\/a> if you have not visited the Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum then your exploration is not complete. It is one of the finest museums of Art and Archaeology in Ahmedabad city. It takes you to a journey dating back to hundreds of years by its rich historic collection of art, manuscripts and much more. The Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum was established in the year 1984. It is situated at the western part of city in Navrangpura in Ahmedabad.\u00a0 Located at a very spacious campus the area is surrounded by various educational & research institutions. Actually this museum born out of an institute started in the year 1956. This institute used to collect and preserve rare manuscripts and arts. When the collection reached its height the necessity to establish a museum was felt in order to display the rich collection from the history. Thus the museum got its shape. The credit to start this museum goes to two significant personalities, Muni Shri Punjyavijayji, a learned monk scholar and Shri Kasturbhai Lalbhai, famous industrialist of Ahmedabad. \u00a0The new building for museum is designed by Architect Shri Balkrishnabhai Doshi and it was opened for public view since 1984.This museum has represents diverse branches of Indian philosophy like Buddhism, Jainism and its shastras, darshans, Vedas, agamas, etc. With around 75000 Jain scripts along with 500 illustrations and 45000 printed books this museum has become the largest museum in the country to exhibit such a vast collection. The books exhibited here are in various languages like Sanskrit, Pali, Old Gujarati, Hindi, Apabhramsa, Rajasthani, etc. The main attractions in the museum are the palm leaf manuscripts, third century sculptures and pre Mughal Miniature paintings. The museum has different sections named after the person who either donated the collection or helped in making the collection.These sections are called galleries. There is one Madhuri D. Desai Gallery named after Madhuri Desai who donated several sculptures to the museum. The collections in this section are as follows:<\/p>\n