The Allahabad Museum is a national-level museum in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, in the Civil Lines area at Chandrashekhar Azad Park, also called Company Bagh. It was established in 1931 and is funded by the Ministry of Culture.
Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone of the present building on December 14, 1947, and the museum opened to the public in 1954. It was declared an Institution of National Importance in 1985.
Key features include galleries on Gandhi and Nehru, the pistol of Chandrashekhar Azad, the Ford truck that carried Gandhi's ashes, 19 canvases by Nicholas Roerich, a gallery of rock art and a library of about 25,000 books. The museum runs on solar power and serves as a research center.
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