Mahatma Gandhi Museum

Gandhi Memorial Museum, Madurai

First Gandhi Memorial Museum in Madurai
Gandhi Memorial Museum, established in 1959, is a memorial museum for Gandhi located in the city of Madurai Southern Indian State Tamil Nadu. Known as Gandhi Museum, it is now one of the five Gandhi Sanghralayas (Gandhi Museums) in the country. It includes a part of the blood-stained garment worn by Gandhi when he was assassinated by Nathuram Godse.

History
Years after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948 an appeal was made to the citizens of India nationwide to build a memorials for Gandhi. By the help of contributions of poor and rich citizens of India, a trust was established with the name Mahatma Gandhi National Memorial Trust, for this cause. This museum was inaugurated by the former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on 15 April 1959. Gandhi Memorial Museum in Madurai comes under the Peace Museums Worldwide selected by United Nations Organisation(UNO).[1] The palace of Rani Mangammal has been renovated and converted into the museum.

Collections in the Museum

India Fights for Freedom
Special Exhibition on "India Fights for Freedom" with 265 illustrations, depicting the history of the Freedom Movement, greets you first

Visual Biography of Gandhiji
Next the "Visual Biography of Gandhiji" contains photos, paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, quotations and some of the selected Photostat copies of many of Gandhiji’s letters and renderings. This section contains 124 rare photographs depicting various phases of Mahatma Gandhi right from his childhood days until being taken to the crematorium. The pictures displayed here are carefully selected.

Relics and Replicas
section "Relics & Replicas", which contains 14 original artifacts used by Gandhiji. The most important thing is the Blood Stained Cloth of Mahatma Gandhi used by him on the day of him on the day of his assassination. This is conserved inside a vacuum glass box.

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