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The Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum is a

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established in 2005. It is located at

Gandhi Smriti Gandhi Smriti, formerly known as Birla House or Birla Bhavan, is a museum dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi, situated on Tees January Road, formerly Albuquerque Road, in New Delhi, India. It is the location where Mahatma Gandhi spent the last ...

, formerly

Birla House Birla may refer to: * Birla family * Members of the Birla family: ** Aditya Vikram Birla ** Ananya Birla ** Basant Kumar Birla ** G. D. Birla ** K. K. Birla ** C. K. Birla ** Kumar Mangalam Birla See also * Burla (disambiguation) Burla may refer ...

, the site where

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, Anti-colonial nationalism, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure ...

was

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. The museum presents historical records of Gandhi's life, and aims to revive and redefine the values by which India obtained freedom.

History

The project is an initiative of the

Aditya Birla Group Aditya Birla Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate, headquartered in Mumbai. It operates in 100 countries with more than 1,40,000 employees directly and indirectly. The group was founded by Seth Shiv Narayan Birla in 1857. The group ha ...

and

Darshan Samiti. It is supported by

Grasim Grasim Industries Limited is an Indian manufacturing company based in Mumbai. Since its inception in 1947 as a textile manufacturer, Grasim has diversified into textile raw materials like viscose staple fiber (VSF) and viscose filament yarn, ch ...

and

Hindalco Hindalco Industries Limited an Indian aluminium and copper manufacturing company, is a subsidiary of the Aditya Birla Group. Its headquarters are at Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The company has annual sales of 25 billion and employs around 20,00 ...

, and developed by the Sacred World Research Laboratory. The museum was inaugurated on 14 April 2005 by Indian Prime Minister

Manmohan Singh Manmohan Singh (; born 26 September 1932) is an Indian politician, economist and statesman who served as the 13th prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He is also the third longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru and Indir ...

The exhibition includes displays derived from classical Indian symbols such as the spinning wheel, turning

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s, touching symbolic pillars, the act of hands touching sacred objects, and collaboratively constructed

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s. It embellishes the life of Gandhi in rhythmic with photographs, paintings, film footage, and video clips. A collection of over 40 exhibits shows the intersection of modern tactile computing and new

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with Gandhi's vision. The exhibits were designed by Ranjit Makkuni, who directed a team of over 200 artists, scientists, and craftspeople, and obtained the contribution of leading scholars and institutions from all over the world. The Project won the ID Magazine New York award for its design contributions. A mobile version of the museum travels to different states of the country and abroad.

Gallery

File:Headlines.jpg, A newspaper clippings exhibit File:E-Harmonium.jpg, E-Harmonium File:An exhibit at Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum, Gandhi Smriti, New Delhi.jpg, An exhibit at the museum

References

Eternal Gandhi

Aditya Birla Aditya Vikram Birla (14 November 1943 – 1 October 1995) was an Indian industrialist. Born into one of the largest business families of India, he oversaw the diversification of his group into textiles, petrochemicals and telecommunications. ...

Pushbutton Gandhi: The Mahatma Goes Multimedia

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External links

Official website: Eternal Gandhi Multimedia Museum

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