The Gandhi Memorial Museum is meant to be living Institutions and not merely a building preserving and showing exhibits, however precious.
Housed in the tamukkam (old exhibition pavilion), of the Rani Mangammal is the excellent Gandhi Memorial Museum, set in spacious and relaxing grounds. The maze of the rooms contains an impressively moving and detailed account of Inida's struggle for Independence from 1757 to 1947, and the English-language signs pull to punches about British Rule. Included in the exhibition is the blood - stained dhoti that Gandhi was wearing at the time he was assassinated in Delhi; it's here because he first took up wearing the dhoti in Madurai in 1921.