Mahatma Gandhi is a cult figure in India. It is revered as an outstanding political and cultural figure of the country's spiritual leader, and just as moral and honest person. So its memorial museums in India today there are five, very popular among the local population, but also among tourists. So one of them was created in had, ten years after the assassination of Gandhi in 1948, a year in the city of Madurai, located in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Specifically for the creation of this Museum was established a special Fund, the money which made everyone.

The Museum was officially opened on 15 April the Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru Palace Tamukkam previously belonged to one of the rulers of the Nayak dynasty - Rani Mangammal, which was specially restored for this.

The exposition of the Museum is quite extensive and consists of several sections. From the outset, the visitors offered special meeting "India fights for freedom", consisting of 265 illustrations, describes the history of India's Freedom. Here is a "Visual Biography Gandhi", which includes photographs, paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, letters Gandhi, as well as a unique collection of 124 photographs depicting the figure in different times of his life, starting with childhood and ending with his last "trip" to the crematorium. The last section "Relics and replicas consists of 14 original items that belonged to Mahatma Gandhi. Central to this exhibition is the bloody clothes, in which the spiritual leader was shot.