Gandhi Memorial Museum, Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

Gandhi Memorial Museum, Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

Gandhi Memorial Museum in Madurai is dedicated to the memory of the Father of the Nation, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

Gandhi Memorial Museum, established in 1959, is a memorial museum for Gandhi located in the city of Madurai in Tamil Nadu, India. Known as Gandhi Museum, it is now one of the five Gandhi Sanghralayas in the country.

In front of the main building, a little towards south, there is “Gandhi Kutir”- a replica of Gandhiji’s hut in Sevagram.

The northern wing of this building, houses the Library, which contains books giving the cultural background of India, books on and by Gandhiji and allied literature. There are about 20,00 volumes in the library. Photostat copies of about 2,70,000 letters of Gandhiji and 62 reels of Micro-films are the very important and valuable part of the collections in the Library.