Place · prime minister's residence & museum · India
Teen Murti Bhavan, New Delhi
Also known as Teen Murti Bhavan, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Prime Ministers' Museum
The former residence of Jawaharlal Nehru from 1948 to his death in 1964, converted after his death into the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. The building was originally built in 1930 as the British commander-in-chief's residence in the Lutyens plan. The library inside is the subcontinent's largest archive of twentieth-century Indian political history, with the papers of Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Rajendra Prasad and others. The Teen Murti memorial outside — three sculpted sepoys of the First World War — gives the building its name. Renamed Prime Ministers' Museum and Library in 2023 with an expansion covering all post-independence prime ministers.
- Date
- 1930–None
- Function
- Learning & scholarship
- Patron dynasty
- British Raj · Indian Union
- Tradition
- Standard reference; INTACH, ASI and municipal records; institutional histories.
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 28.609, 77.198
Connections (1)
- Site withinDelhi
Teen Murti Bhavan sits in central New Delhi within the Lutyens plan's inner diplomatic quarter, originally built in 1930 as the British commander-in-chief's residence and converted after Nehru's 1964 death into the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. The site is the subcontinent's largest twentieth-century political archive and defines Delhi's cultural institutional geography.