Johannesburg, Gandhi's home becomes a museum-hotel

In recent days, the first museum-hotel dedicated to Gandhi was opened in Johannesburg, in the suburb of Orchard. Gandhi went through these places as a young lawyer, and he lived right in the House Satyagraha between 1908 and 1909. The house was built in 1907 by a close friend of Gandhi, the German architect ermann Kallenbach.

To renovate it and give it new life, it took a team of great experts consisting of a historian, a curator, and two interior designers, who made the Satyagraha House part of the historical heritage of South Africa.


Currently it has 7 guests room and a museum that shows the milestones of the great indian man, particularly those moments that he shared with his friend Hermann Kallenbach are displayed in the very heart of the house. The track also offers visits to key places like Soweto, Constitution Hill and the Old Fort Prison complex in Johannesburg, where Gandhi and, more recently, Nelson Mandela were imprisoned.