Partition Museum

Highlights

• The Partition Museum is a public museum located in the Dara Shukoh Library Building at Dr. B.
• Ambedkar University Delhi, Kashmere Gate Campus Old Delhi, India.
• Much like its counterpart in Amritsar, this museum aims to bring forward the people's history preceding and succeeding the Partition of India in 1947.
• The museum was inaugurated on 18 May 2023 by the Delhi Education Minister Atishi, who hails from a family of Partition survivors as well.
• This is India's second museum dedicated to preserving the stories of individuals or families that witnessed the partition of India.

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Modest, respectful clothing is expected at this site.

History

• •The building wherein the museum is presently hosted has its distinctive history.
• •It was once part of the Mughal prince Dara Shukoh's palace.
• •After Shukoh's death, charged of apostasy by prosecutors and executed on the behest of his brother Aurangzeb, and the latter's death, the property was passed on to Bahadur Shah I.
• •Thereafter, it became the residence of one Portuguese lady, Juliana Dias da Costa, who had an important role in the court of Bahadur Shah I.

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• Much like its counterpart in Amritsar, this museum aims to bring forward the people's history preceding and succeeding the Partition of India in 1947.

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