Mahatma Gandhi is a cult figure in India. He is revered as an outstanding political and cultural figures of the country, religious leaders, and just as a highly moral and honest man. Therefore, his memorial museum, which in India today there are five, are very popular among the local population and tourists. So one of them was created, 1959, ten years after the assassination of Gandhi in 1948, in the city of Madurai, located in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Especially for the creation of this museum was established a special fund, money which was added by anyone.

The museum was inaugurated on April 15, Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, the palace Tamukkam previously belonged to one of the rulers of the dynasty Nyack - Rani Mangammal, which has been specially renovated for this purpose.

The museum exhibition is extensive and consists of several sections. From the outset, the visitors invited to a special meeting, "India is fighting for freedom," consisting of 265 illustrations, describing the history of the Movement in India for freedom. Then you can see the "visual biography of Gandhi", includes photographs, paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, letters, Gandhi, as well as a unique collection of 124 photographs depicting the figure at different times of his life, beginning with childhood and ending with his last 'journey' the crematorium. The last section of "Relics and Replicas" consists of 14 original items that belonged to Mahatma Gandhi. Central to this exhibition is bloody clothes in which the spiritual leader was gunned down.