Indira Gandhi Memorial museum is located at the former residence of Indira Gandhi is now a fascinating museum, displaying artefacts, photos and newspaper clippings, as well as personal belongings, including the blood-stained sari she was wearing when she was assassinated in 1984. Some of the rooms are preserved as they were, an interesting window into the understated elegance of her life. Another section is devoted to her son Rajiv, also assassinated in 1991 by a suicide bomber. Fragments of the clothes he was wearing and, even more poignantly, his trainers, are on display. On the way out, you'll pass an enclosed crystal pathway that marks Gandhi's final footsteps before her murder.

Indira Gandhi Memorial Museums are erected to portray the history, tradition or legacy of a country or region or to preserve the cultural or natural heritage of a place. But rarely do museums hold such emotional as well as a national significance as the Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum in New Delhi does. The museum was established at 1, Safdarjung Road in Delhi by converting the bungalow that served as the former Prime Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi's residence, into a memorial after her historical assassination. Indira Gandhi Museum, is located inside the white bungalow which served as residence of Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. The bungalow was turned into a memorial museum after her assassination on October 31st 1984. Attractions: Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum was the residence of the former Prime Minister of India. It was later converted into a museum. One can see the collection of rare photographs of the Nationalist movement, the personal moments of the Nehru-Gandhi family and her childhood.Walking in this museum is like strolling on the paths of history as the walls of the museum display rare photographs and drawings by Indira Gandhi and his son Rajiv Gandhi. The collection gives a visual narration of her life from childhood to her last days.

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