[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.

[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.

[7] Nehru Memorial Museum and Library is known as Teen Murti Bhawan (sculptor: Leonard Jennings of Britain), after the three statues established in 1922 in honor of the three Indian princely states Jodhpur, Hyderabad and Mysore after their contribution in World War I by serving in the present day Gaza Strip, Israel, and Palestine.

After his death in 1964, it was decided that Teen Murti Bhawan should be converted into a museum and a library which would promote original research in modern Indian history with special reference to the Nehruvian era.

[12] The collection of manuscripts, historical documents and other archival materials of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library were made available online, after the digitisation project, with the help of HCL Infosystems started in 2010.

The Pradhan Mantri Sangrahalaya[15] is intended to be a tribute to every prime minister of the Republic of India since Independence and a narrative record of how each one has contributed to the development of our nation over the last 75 years.

Each one left an important footprint on the journey of development, social harmony, and economic empowerment that has enabled India to give true meaning to freedom.

India is shown to have inherited an impoverished land from the debris of British colonialism and together gave it a new life, lifting our country from famished deprivation to food surplus status and creating infrastructure over barren territory for the benefit of the people.

The Teen Murti Estate, home to the first prime minister of the Republic of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, for 16 years, was the natural environment for Pradhan Mantri Sangrahalaya because this is a story of continuity.

[17] In 2009, several well-known academics, such as Ramachandra Guha, Sumit Sarkar, Nivedita Menon, Nayanjot Lahiri, Mushirul Hasan, Mukul Kesavan, Mahesh Rangarajan, and Krishna Kumar, alleged that the institution was being run in an inefficient and corrupt fashion.

[19] In turn, writer and activist Madhu Kishwar, environmentalist Pradip Krishen, and historians Irfan Habib and D. N. Jha came out in support of PMMML and its director, Mridula Mukherjee.