National Gandhi Museum
The shawl Gandhi wore when he was shot is here — and so is the bullet.
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Sitting beside Gandhi's Samadhi at Raj Ghat, this museum holds the physical remnants of his final hours. It opened in 1961 on the 13th anniversary of his assassination, inaugurated by President Rajendra Prasad. The library adds depth: 35,000 books and documents, plus 2,000 periodicals in English and Hindi, for anyone who wants to go beyond the relics.
What to look for
- The assassination shawl and dhoti paired with one of the bullets used to kill Gandhi — displayed together in the martyrdom gallery
- A Satyagraha woodcut by Willemia Muller Ogterop, one of the standout pieces in the art gallery
- Gandhi's walking stick and ivory toothpick — small personal objects that make the abstract historical figure immediate
The museum is directly adjacent to Gandhi's Samadhi at Raj Ghat — plan to visit both in a single trip to this corner of New Delhi.
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More to see in Delhi
- Red FortThe ramparts where Jawaharlal Nehru raised India's flag on 15 August 1947 still host that ceremony every Independence Day.
- Qutb MinarSuccessive dynasties handed this tower off across 170 years — Aibak started it in 1199, Firuz Shah Tughlaq capped it with a cupola in 1368.
- Humayun's TombThe red-sandstone ancestor of the Taj Mahal — commissioned by an empress, designed by Persian architects, and finished a century before Agra.
- Jama MasjidShah Jahan built his imperial mosque at the highest point of Shahjahanabad — the Mughal capital — and it was regarded as a symbolic gesture of Mughal power across India.
- Lotus TempleTwenty-seven marble petals, grouped in threes, fold into a single hall where any person of any faith walks in without condition.
- India GateAround 13,300 names carved in stone — soldiers lost across Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and the Afghan frontier.