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 Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum, Ahmedabad, Gujarat


Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

History of Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum 


A prestigious industrialist Shri Kasturbhai Lalbhai alongside the renowned priest and researcher Jain Acharya Muni Puniyavijayiji set up the Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology. Muni Puniyavijayiji gave all his significant assortment of original copies, bronze and material works of art to the organization. A considered setting up a historical center arose as the assortment filled in numbers and a need to defend it was figured it out. 

Close to the L.D. Foundation of Indology a structure worked by conspicuous modeler Shri Balkrishna Doshi was picked to have the rich assortment of the curios. In 1985 the then Governor of Gujarat, Shri Brajkumar Nehru introduced the Museum. 

This amazing historical center was planned with two displays named Muni Puniyavijayji Gallery and Smt. Madhuri Desai Gallery. Later in 2004 an extra display called the Priyakant Munshaw Gallery was set up. 

Exhibition hall has it own center lab which has the office of cleaning, fixing and reestablishing the relics to safeguard them for a more extended period. Craftsmanship Reference Library and Conservation Laboratory were created with the help of Ministry of Culture, New Delhi 2012-2013. 

Historical center 


Muni Puniyavijayiji Gallery is set in the main floor with a presentation of Gujarati Jaina style canvases. He had an energy of gathering a few significant antiquities like palm leaf original copies since 1940. The guests get an opportunity to observe one of the most punctual painted paper composition of Shantinath Charitra dated V.S 1453 (which alludes to as 1396 A.D.). Shantinath Charitra is a Sanskrit text portraying the existence of the sixteenth Jain Tirthankara Shaninatha and composed by Ajita Prabhasuri in 1397 CE. 

Striking showcases incorporate wooden book covers called patili, material composition of Jain journey, Mughal painter, Ustad Salivahanan's Vijnaptipara alluding to Mughal head Jahangir's farman denying the killing of animals during the celebration of Paryushan.