Teen Murti Bhawan (Nehru Memorial Museum), ,

This one is a beauty and somehow special because it was the home of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first and most-loved Prime Minister. Formerly called Flagstaff House, it used to be the house of the British Commander-in-Chief. This palatial house, second only to the Viceroy’s, suited the Anglicized taste of the Harrow-educated Prime Minister who lived here from 1948 till his death in1964.The building stands directly south of Rashtrapati Bhawan. Situated at a major rond-point (in simple English a roundabout at a road intersection), it was designed by Robert Tor Russell who was part of Lutyens’ team. The teen murti or three statues of soldiers on the roundabout give the building its name.
Teen Murti Bhawan is a handsome building faced in stone and stucco in an austere classical style. It was carefully placed in the city to reflect the importance of military power to the Viceroy. In 1948, eighteen years after its completion, it became the residence of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. On his death in May 1964 it was preserved as a museum and research library in his memory. The house retains many of his personal belongings like the watch on his bedside table.

The house is set amid large beautifully maintained gardens with a charming rose walk. It is here that Nehru plucked his trademark buttonhole each morning. Nearby is the Jawahar Jyoti , the eternal flame, lit on his birthday in 1964. Adjacent on a rock is his epitaph.
Kushk Mahal, a hunting lodge built during the reign of Feroze Shah Tughlaq is on a mound just behind the main building. The Nehru Planetarium is also in the same compound.
Closed Monday.