Prime Ministers' Museum and Library Society

Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library Society
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28°36′09″N 77°11′55″E / 28.6026029°N 77.1987395°E / 28.6026029; 77.1987395
LocationTeen Murti Bhavan, New Delhi, India
Established1966; 58 years ago (1966)
Other information
DirectorShri Shri Sanjiv N. Sahai[1]
Websitewww.pmsangrahalaya.gov.in

The Prime Ministers' Museum and Library Society previously known as the Nehru Museum and Library Society is a museum and library in New Delhi, India, which aims to preserve and reconstruct the history of the Indian independence movement. Housed within the Teen Murti House complex, it is an autonomous institution under the Indian Ministry of Culture, and was founded in 1964 after the death of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. It aims to foster academic research on modern and contemporary history.[2] Today, the Nehru Memorial Library is the world's leading resource centre on India's first prime minister.[3] Its archives contain the bulk of Mahatma Gandhi's writings,[4] as well as private papers of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, C. Rajagopalachari, B. C. Roy, Jayaprakash Narayan, Charan Singh, Sarojini Naidu and Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. In March 2010, it launched a digitization project of its archives, and by June 2011, 867,000 pages of manuscripts and 29,807 photographs had been scanned and 500,000 pages had been uploaded on the digital library website.[3] Amongst noted publications of the NMML are Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Man of Destiny by Ruskin Bond, and Nehru Anthology (1980).

Nehru Memorial Museum and Library has over the years, supported scholars and historians across India. Through its fellowship programme, the Nehru Memorial Fellowship, it has funded some of India's best academics, such as Chief Information Commissioner OP Kejriwal.[5] It is also one of the best libraries in Delhi for the social sciences as it has a huge collection on labour related issues in the form of PhD dissertations, reports, books, journals and newspapers.[6]

On 26 April 2016, a dagger gifted to former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru by Saudi Arabia was stolen from the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.[7]

  1. ^ "Directory". Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
  2. ^ Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Ministry of Culture, 23 August 2011.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference mint was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Christie's to return Gandhi's letter". The Times of India. 4 July 2007. Archived from the original on 12 September 2011.
  5. ^ "Controversy In Nehru's Home". Vol. 6, no. 7. Tehelka Magazine. 21 February 2009.
  6. ^ Nehru Memorial Museum & Library Archives of Indian Labour.
  7. ^ "At Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, a gift is stolen, not one CCTV". The India Express. 27 April 2016.