Gandhi Teerth (Gandhi Research Foundation) is a research institution and museum on

Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2October 186930January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalism, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethics, political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful Indian ...

, in

Jalgaon Jalgaon () is a city in the state of Maharashtra, India. The city is located in North Maharashtra in the subregion of Khandesh, and serves as the administrative headquarters of its namesake district, the Jalgaon district. In the subregion of ...

Maharashtra Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...

, India. Located 60 km away from

Ajanta Caves The Ajanta Caves are 30 rock-cut architecture, rock-cut Buddhist caves in India, Buddhist cave monuments dating from the second century Common Era, BCE to about 480 CE in Aurangabad district, Maharashtra, Aurangabad district of Maharashtra sta ...

. It was established on 25 March 2012. It's initiated and promoted by the Gandhi Foundation. Gandhi Research Foundation (GRF), was inaugurated by President of India, Pratibha Patil on 25 March 2012. It was founded by Bhavarlal Jain. The structure was built in Jodhpur stone. It includes an auditorium, an amphitheatre, meeting/classrooms and guest houses. The library and archives have specially treated preserved historic documents for researchers on Gandhiji. There is a shop having Khadi clothing, handmade gift items and Gandhian literature.

About Gandhi Museum

Museum building has 30 interactive segments, which equipped with Audiovisual Systems, touch screen, Bio-scope, etc. describing Mahatma Gandhi. It has a multilingual audio guided, air-conditioned museum, on the life and works of Mahatma Gandhi. It takes approx 2 hours 30 minutes time led by amiable guides.

Awards

* GRIHA Adarsh Award 2014. * Artists in Concrete Awards Asia Fest 2013–14

References

External links

Outside view - Google Walk-through Gandhi Teerth: Green Campus

Inside view - Google Walk-through towards Gandhi Museum
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