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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.
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