Museum of World Religions

The Museum of World Religions is a museum in Yonghe, Taipei County, Taiwan.

The museum was founded by the Buddhist monk Yang Chin-sheng and set up through the Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Foundation. The museum building was designed by Ralph Appelbaum Associates, the designer of major American museums including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC and the expansion of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

The Museum of World Religions was opened in 2001 by Hsin Tao . Further elaborate opening ceremonies were held on September 11th and in November 2002 with hundred of religious leaders and others from around the world, including the President Chen Shui-bian. The Taiwanese architect and educator Han Pao-teh was the first curator.

The museum presents exhibits on ten different major . It also features a model called "Avatamsaka World" illustrating the Avatamsaka Sutra.