Swaminarayan Museum

Shree Swaminarayan Museum
Location within Ahmedabad
Swaminarayan Museum (Gujarat)
Swaminarayan Museum (India)
Established8 March 2011
LocationNaranpura, Ahmedabad
Coordinates23°03′18″N 72°33′00″E / 23.055°N 72.550°E / 23.055; 72.550
Collection size3,000 artifacts used by Swaminarayan
Websitewww.swaminarayanmuseum.in

The Shree Swaminarayan Museum is a museum in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It houses of three thousand personal objects of Swaminarayan, who is believed to be a manifestation of god in Swaminarayan Hinduism. It is a project undertaken to protect God Swaminarayan's objects of Prasadi (personal objects) which can be viewed by all people for darshan.

This is the first ever project in the Swaminarayan Sampraday to create this unity in all of God Swaminarayan's Prasadi objects from temples all over the world and will be a 175,000-square-foot (16,300 m2) complex built on 30,000 square yards (25,000 m2) with a total project cost of ₹ 10.5 Million. This museum was envisioned former Acharya Tejendraprasad of the Narnarayan Dev Gadi.

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