Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum

The Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum of the L.D. Institute of Indology is a museum of Indian Sculptures Paintings and Coins located in Ahmedabad. Ever since its inception in 1956 the Institute has been collecting and preserving rare manuscripts and artifacts of various kinds. The Museum is the product of the vision and energy of the two remarkable persons who were responsible for its establishment: Muni Shri Punyavijayji an erudite monk scholar and Sheth Kasturbhai Lalbhai the well known industrialist of Ahmedabad. As the collection grew over the years the Board of Trustees of the Institute felt strongly the need for a separate museum building to house the display of its collection. Consequently a new museum building was built as an annex to the existing building which was also designed by the internationally acclaimed architect Shri Balkrishna Doshi. The collection in the new museum building was opened to the public in 1984.