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Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya or more aptly the
Memorial Museums set up on Mahatma Gandhi at the behest of Gandhi
Memorial Trust way back are unique institutions in the sense that
nowhere else so many museums have come up on a single personality
and appropriately further since the person these commemorate wanted
to reach everyone however remote one may situate, with his message
of Love, Truth, Non-violence and regulated living to ensure a just, humane
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The Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya at Barrackpore,
may claim to be further distinct because of its offerings and
programmes and its integrated approach as a museum proper utilising
all the present day museological media and having developed a range
of galleries depicting facets of Gandhiji's Life and
Philosophy along with different phases of India's Freedom Movement.
The variety of collections at the Museum at Barrackpore provide
interesting and highly informative direct research materials
regarding the personality, thinking and the programmes of the
Mahatma or about events in his life. |
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| The museum's search for an alternative
ideology, in place of those that are pursued still by Governments and
countries without being able to bring about real welfare of the people, through
various intellectual exercises like seminars, dialogues or other
such programmes and its research activities, perhaps a first by a
purely biographical museum and beyond its collected objects must be
regarded as a distinct feature. |
Aims & Objects:
- To commemorate Mahatma Gandhi, the 'Father of the Nation' & the 'Millenium
Man'.
- To collect, preserve and display materials connected with the
memory of the Mahatma and the Indian Freedom Movement.
- To disseminate Gandhiji's life, thoughts, activities and
programmes for public benefit through different museum processes.
- To depict also Mahatma Gandhi's relations with the Eastern
Regional provinces.
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Timings
The Museum remains open:
On all days except Wednesday
Timing - 11.00 a.m. to 5 p.m.
No Entry Fee
Accessibility:
By Train: SEALDAH (Main Line) to Barrackpore Station. From there by
Auto or by Bus (No. 81, 85, S 34) to Mistrighat More.
HOWRAH (Main Line) to Serampore Station & from there to Dhobighat by
Ferry.
By Road: From Kolkata on Barrackpore Trunk Road (B.T.Road)
to Barrackpore |
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