Preserved memories of the ‘Father of the Indian Nation’

Previously called the Birla House as it was the home of the Birla business tycoons, the Gandhi Smriti is a museum devoted to Mahatma Gandhi located in Tees January Road in New Delhi where it was opened to the public in 1973. Since 2005 the place features the Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum. The atmosphere of the museum is peaceful as visitors can quietly walk around the ground and discover Gandhi’s own small room which contains his watch, his iconic spectacles and even the utensils he used in prison. The Martyr’s column is constructed on the place where he met his death.
The museum is incredibly informative, with both visual depictions and photographs of Gandhi’s life as well as his philosophies and good work being brought to life through numerous books and journals. A historian would truly become engrossed in the details given of his life here, the era under the British government and its influence which is so brilliantly explained in books, newspaper cuttings and old photographs.
One cannot but be aware of the sense of inspiration and peace that dwells even to this day at the museum that seems to echo the sentiments of the great man who lived there once. The building and landscape have been preserved exactly in their previous state. Even without the big statue of Gandhi that greets you at the entrance, one can feel his presence here and most tourists, it is said, return again and again to this much respected museum in India.

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