Photos: A museum to unsung heroes of the freedom struggle at the Red Fort

Photos: A museum to unsung heroes of the freedom struggle at the Red Fort A museum paying homage to the unsung heroes of the freedom struggle was inaugurated at the Red Fort by Union culture minister Mahesh Sharma on Monday. Titled Azaadi Ke Diwane, the museum uses experiential touch displays, scenario-based installations, public records and multimedia aids along with the more conventional informative displays to recreate memories from Indian history between 1857 and 1947.. 1 / 8 View Photos in a new improved layout An installation recreating the arrangements used to break prisoners on hunger fasts, seen at the ‘Azaadi Ke Diwane’ gallery in the Red Fort in New Delhi. 2 / 8 View Photos in a new improved layout Azaadi Ke Diwane is the fifth in a series of recently inaugurated museums at the Red Fort complex and repurposes a two-storeyed barracks building there that had been lying disused for decades. 3 / 8 View Photos in a new improved layout Azaadi Ke Diwane joins four such museums inaugurated since January in the Red Fort: Subhash Chandra Bose and INA museum, Yaad-e-Jallian museum, museum on 1857 and Drishyakala, a museum on Indian art. 6 / 8 View Photos in a new improved layout The museum uses experiential touch displays, scenario-based installations like the one pictured here, and the more conventional informative displays to recreate memories from Indian history between 1857 and 1947.