Sarnath Museum

Archaeological Museum

• Timings : 10 am-4.30 pm every day except on Fridays and government holidays.

On this place, the buddha delivered his first sermon more than 2500 years ago, has a site museum whose prize exhibit is the enormous lion capital (2, 31 m). Now the emblem of Independent India.

There are many other Buddha and bodhisattva figures on view. Among these the most outstanding is the Gupta period Buddha with hand raised in Abhaya or protection.