Khoj Museum

Reasons to visit KHOJ

Niche. Dynamic. Innovate. Design.

Unlike a regular museum with play cards of learning, KHOJ is built so that visitors act, experiment and question their way through each topic. Exhibits change with every cycle, so returning families meet something new each time.

KHOJ locations & cycles

What's on across the museums

KHOJ Naranpura · Exhibition Cycle 1

Bulbule, Moving Images & Khagol

Bulbule answers every question about bubbles through a series of experiments. Moving Images traces animation from flipbooks to VR, and Khagol explores planets, moons and constellations.

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KHOJ Naranpura · Exhibition Cycle 2

The environmental cycle

Cycle 2 stresses sustainability and environmental prosperity, focusing on three aspects of the environment: climate, soil and plastic waste — from reconnecting with soil to understanding plastic.

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KHOJ Riverfront · Inaugurated 21 Jan 2022

Water, bubbles & moving images

A magical world of water, moving images and bubbles — a place to have fun with science and learn the social impacts of water in daily life, from surface tension to the facts about body composition and water weight.

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KHOJ Surat · In its developing stage

Virosphere & sustainable living

KHOJ Surat covers two hot topics: viruses and sustainability. Visitors explore the entire existence of viruses, clear up misconceptions, and meet an activity area with drawing, painting, sculpting and DIY stations.

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Khoj Museum is a children's museum in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and one of the first of its kind in India. Rather than presenting objects behind glass, it weaves science, art and innovation into a single participatory experience, inviting young visitors to touch, test and question. The idea behind KHOJ is simple and generous: children learn best when they are allowed to act, experiment and build their own understanding alongside the content on display.

Every exhibit at Khoj is designed around inquiry rather than instruction. Display sets are constructed so that a child can experiment, observe the result and then ask a better question, forming a small loop of curiosity-driven exploration. The museum's philosophy emphasises building concepts with depth, connecting ideas across subjects instead of isolating them, and giving visitors reasons to keep looking, thinking and trying again.

The exhibits change with each cycle, which means returning families encounter something new every time they visit. Rather than a fixed collection of permanent showcases, the museum behaves more like a continually refreshed gallery of themes, each filled with hands-on stations and open-ended prompts. Daily life, everyday processes, movement, bubbles and soap, light, the moon and history of science all appear as starting points for investigation.

Participatory exploration is central to the KHOJ approach. Visitors are encouraged to interact, participate and create rather than simply watch, and many of the most memorable moments come from unplanned discoveries made in the middle of an activity. Films, online resources, virtual tours and gallery content extend the museum experience beyond the building itself, allowing curiosity to continue long after a visit has ended.

A visit to Khoj is structured around reasons to visit, including themed exhibitions, activity sessions and regular events that bring families together. Children and adults move through the space together, sharing tasks and prompting one another with questions. The atmosphere is playful, busy and informal, designed so that a group can spend hours inside without the feeling of having been rushed through a checklist of attractions.

Because KHOJ is aimed squarely at young audiences, the design of the space pays close attention to children. Low, reachable displays, generous spacing, and activities scaled for small hands make it comfortable to explore independently. Older children find challenge in the depth of the questions, while younger visitors are drawn to colour, motion and immediate sensory feedback. The result is a museum that grows with the child rather than a fixed age bracket.

Beyond the gallery floors, Khoj supports a wider community of curious minds through collaborative projects, civic and postcard initiatives, competitions and event programming. These efforts connect the museum with schools, families and partners in Ahmedabad and beyond, promoting science learning and creativity as shared civic values. The museum also welcomes the involvement of institutions and supporters who wish to help build and sustain its activities.

For visitors planning a first trip, the useful way to think about KHOJ is not as a destination with a single attraction but as an experience with a rhythm. Arrive, follow whatever catches your attention, spend time at one station rather than many, and let the questions accumulate. Exhibits reward patience, and the more time a family allows, the more connections they tend to make between the science, art and innovation on display.

The visual identity of Khoj Museum matches its educational intent. Dark, gallery-like surfaces set a calm backdrop, while a vivid cyan accent marks buttons, section labels and highlight cards, drawing attention to actions rather than decoration. Warm coral and peach tones appear in imagery for contrast. Bold sans-serif headlines sit against lighter body copy, and generous vertical spacing between sections keeps the pages airy, modern and easy to read.

Khoj Museum describes itself as a joint initiative, developed with partners and supporters who share a belief in inquiry-based learning. That collaborative framing is visible throughout the institution, from rotating exhibition themes to activity sessions and community events. It is a place built around questions rather than answers, and its ambition is to promote science, art and creativity in a way that feels less like instruction and more like an invitation to explore.

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