This personal museum displays the relics of Mahatma Gandhi. There are original copies of his correspondence as well as photostats of his letters and the journals he published. These are further supplemented by microfilms and a number of photographs which depict the various aspects of his invaluable contribution to modern India.

National Gandhi Museum, dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi, has a long story behind its establishment. The work on this museum started in Mumbai soon after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi on 30th January 1948. Efforts were made to collect all the personal belongings of Mahatma Gandhi including personal relics, manuscripts, books, journals, documents, photographs, audio-visual material and anything that related to the life, philosophy and work of Gandhiji.

Around early 1951, the work shifted to Delhi, with the museum first being set up in the Government hutments adjacent to the Kota House. Afterwards, Delhi National Gandhi Museum was shifted in 1957 the old mansion at 5, Mansingh Road and finally, in 1959, to the place where it now stands. Situated opposite Rajghat, this two-story museum was inaugurated on January 30, 1961 by the then President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad.

Also known as 'Gandhi Memorial Museum of Delhi, it comprises of five pavilions consisting of sculpture, photographs and paintings of Gandhiji, history of Satyagraha movement, along with the philosophy of 'ahimsa' (non-violence). Other collections of the museum include a stone bowl, a brass plate, the clothes Gandhiji was wearing on the day of his assassination, his wooden sandals, etc. National Gandhi Museum also houses a library and an information cent

The Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum is located in New Delhi at 1 Safdarjung Road in the home where she lived. The house stands in a lovely garden with mature trees and flowering plants. It contains a collection of photographs documenting her life from her childhood to her days as prime minister. In addition, a number of rooms have been dedicated to her son Rajiv Gandhi who was assassinated in May 1991. Her library and living room have been maintained just as she kept them. These rooms are not open to the public. However,
they can be viewed through the windows from the gardens.

The origin of this Museum goes back to the period soon  after the  assassination of Mahatma Gandhi on the fateful evening of January 30, 1948, when the slow  process of  scouting for, collecting  and preserving  the personal  relics, manuscripts, books,  journals and documents, photographic and audio-visual material, all that could go into a Museum  on  the life,  philosophy and  work  of Gandhiji--began  in an unostentatious way in Mumbai.

Later the work was shifted to Delhi and in early 1951 the nucleus of a Museum on Gandhiji was set up in the Government hutments adjoining Kota House. Later still, in mid-1957, it was shifted to the picturesque old mansion at 5,  Mansingh  Road.

It was finally brought to its present new and permanent   home, most appropriately built opposite  the SAMADHI of Mahatma Gandhi - free India's most revered place of        pilgrimage-at  Rajghat, New Delhi, in 1959. The imposing   two storey Museum was formally  inaugurated by Dr.   Rajendra Prasad, the   President  of India, on January   30, 1961.

The Museum was named 'Gandhi Memorial Museum' (Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya),
now commonly known as 'National Gandhi Museum' (Rashtriya Gandhi Sangrahalaya)
as there are also a number of regional  Gandhi memorial museums in India.