Gandhi Bhawan (Hyderi Manzil) - Historical place museum in Kolkata - Kolkata, India

The museum is yet to open but the house is very beautiful. Mahatma ji stayed here on 15th August 1947. The house is well maintained. A marble statue of Mahatma Gandhi is present there.

Went there today at 2.30pm. The gates were locked from inside. A radio was playing on a table . No one responded to our calls. Before going there I checked Google where it showed that the museum was open. Went there again after 40 min but it was a futile effort.

This is the very house where Mahatma Gandhi was staying as India was awakening to freedom on 15th August, 1947. From here, he kept a keen eye on the developments happening around during that time and also requested for the riots to stop. The place is now well maintained after many years of considerable neglect and the adjoining museum adds further to the glory of the place. There's still room for further beautification that will make this place more desirable as a tourist destination.

Very old museum in Kolkata and you must visit.Lots of memories and history stored here,during our before independence.The place is beautiful and well organised.The guide & staff are thoroughly prepared to each and everything to the visitors,during independence period and struggle,how was our Mahatma Gandhi and freedom fighters fought to independence for us. The photos and gallery are neatly maintained and encourage us to visit more times to this place.

A must to visit in Kolkata for History lover's and Gandhian followers. The place is well maintained. The staff are very friendly and showed us around all the places and explained us about the events accounted in the days of Gandi staying here. The photo gallery is very good. The things used by gandhi is in display. Definitely not just a tourist place. Its a place of national importance.

This is an old residence now converted into a museum where Gandhiji stayed when Indian got independence. Whirlwind days for the life of Gandhi and the nation. He could establish peace and avoid mutual massacre by Hindus and Muslims fir which Lord Mountbatten called him One man boundary force. Maintenance is so so.

The Haideri Mansion at Beliaghata is now converted to a museum and named Gandhi Bhawan, as at the time of partition in 1947 Mahatma Gandhi sat here for a fasting(Anshan) against the brutal communal attacks. It was due to his fasting for few days the attackers surrendered their weapons to him as a mark of stopping violence. The surrendered arms, a few belonging of Mahatma Gandhi a few photographs and copy of newspaper cutting is housed in this museum of around 5 rooms in a complex. The Haideri Mansion, such an important part of Indian history is almost an unsung structure, almost neglected, except for some historian, Gandhian's or locals hardly any Kolkata's citizen know about its exisitence.

If you expect much.. sorry.. but yes, you can get a view of the rooms, utensils, Mahatmaji's stick, watch, his bed, etc. Actually he came to Calcutta at 1947, resided at Hydari Manzil (now Gandhi Bhawan) and made a fasting for 73 hours as a protest against the violation that arose regarding partition. There are pictures of newspapers depicting leaders, mob collisions, and many turmoil situations in Bengal.