GANDHI RESOURCES: Gandhi Museums, Ashrams and Libraries

A List of Gandhi Museums, Ashrams and Libraries in India and Abroad

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  • Gandhi Museums, Ashrams and Libraries
Mahatma Gandhi

GANDHI RESOURCES

Gandhi Museums

  1. National Gandhi Museum and Library, New Delhi
  2. Mani Bhavan Gandhi Sangrahalaya, Mumbai
  3. Sabarmati Ashram and Museum, Ahmedabad
  4. Gandhi National Memorial Society, Pune
  5. Gandhi Research Foundation, Jalgaon
  6. Gandhi Sangrahalaya, Patna
  7. Gandhi Bhavan, Trivandrum
  8. Gandhi Memorial Museum, Madurai
  9. Kirti Mandir, Porbandar
  10. Magan Sangrahalaya, Wardha
  11. Gandhi Memorial Museum, West Bengal

Gandhi Ashrams

  1. Sabarmati Ashram and Museum, Ahmedabad
  2. Sevagram Ashram, Wardha
  3. Tolstoy Farm, South Africa
  4. Anandwan Ashram, Chandrapur
  5. Gandhi Ashram Trust, Bangladesh

Gandhi Tourist Places

  1. Porbandar(Birthplace)
  2. Sabarmati Ashram(Ahmedabad)
  3. Agakhan Palace (Pune)
  4. Sevagram Ashram(Wardha)
  5. Gandhi Museum(Bombay)
  6. Gandhi Smriti & Darshan Samiti (Delhi)
  7. Gandhi Museum (Madurai)
  8. Gandhi Tours

External Links

  1. Gandhi Legacy Tour 2013-14
  2. Gandhi Heritage Sites
Sabarmati Ashram and Museum, Ahmedabad
Sabarmati Ashram and Museum, Ahmedabad
Sabarmati Ashram and Museum, Ahmedabad

Founded in1963
Authority responsible: Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust
Director: Amrutbhai K. Modi
Aims: The Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya seeks to keep alive the message of Gandhi's life and work through the following activities: collection, preservation and display of Gandhi's writings, photographs, paintings, voice-records, with as well as helping and undertaking study and research in Gandhian thought and activities and publishing the results of such study and research and allied literature for the benefit of the people; maintaining contact with the youth and student community and providing facilities to them for the study of Gandhian thought; arranging exhibitions on aspects of Gandhi's life, literature and activities; observance in a suitable manner of occasions connected with Gandhi's life.
Contents: Archives consisting of 34,065 letters to and from Gandhi both in original and in Photostats; in Hridaya Kunj (original residence of Gandhi) some of the personal relics of Gandhi are on display; library consisting of nearly 21,500 books dealing with Gandhi's life, work and teaching and allied subjects and reading room with more than 50 periodicals in English, Hindi and Gujarati.
Special activities: Photograph gallery (life story of Mahatma Gandhi) consisting of more than 100 photo enlargements of some of the vivid and historic events of Gandhi's life; "Gandhi in Ahmedabad" gallery consisting of photographs and some important documents; Colour Oil Painting Gallery consisting of eight big life -size paintings of some historic events of Gandhi's life. Publications: Mahadevbhai's Diaries, personal secretary of Gandhi, parts 6 to 20
Address: Harijan Ashram, Ahmedabad-380027, Gujarat State, India
Tel.: 91-79-2755-7277
Fax: 91-79-2756-0569
Director: 91-79-2755-6659
Opening Hours: 8.30-18 h
Email: mahatma@sabarmati.org
Website : www.gandhiashram.org.in