Gandhi Museum

Gandhi Museum

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The Gandhi Memorial museum at Madurai has been built and organised by the Gandhi Smarak Nidhi. The Museum is housed in the historic Tamukkam Palace of Rani Mangammal of Naick dynasty which was built about 1670 A.D. In 1955, the Tamilnadu State Government gifted the palace with about 13 acres of land, to the Gandhi Smarak Nidhi for the purpose pf housing Gandhi Memorial Museum. To the south of the building is a big open-air theatre which accommodates about 8,000 people. Cultural programmes, weekly film shows and public meetings on special occasions are held in this theatre. In front of the main building, there is a replica of Gandhiji's hut 'Gandhi Kutir' in Sevagram. The northern wing of this building, houses the Library which contains books on and by Gandhiji and allied literature. The most important and valuable part of the collections in the Library are Photostat copies of about 2,70,000 letters of Gandhiji and 62 reels of Micro-films.