Then in 1963, having been designed by the architect Charles Correa, the museum was built. This had originally been located in Hridaya Kunj, Gandhi's own cottage in the ashram. The ashram now has a museum, the Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya. Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948. On 12 March 1930, Gandhi vowed that he would not return to the ashram until India had gained independence and Gandhi did not come back to Sabarmati ashram.

Then local citizens decided to preserve it. By 22 July 1933, he had already decided to disband the ashram, which had become a deserted place after the detention of so many. Gandhi later asked the Government to give it back but they were unwilling. Subsequently, the government seized the ashram. This mass act of civil disobedience in turn led to the imprisoning of some 60,000 by the British Raj over the following three weeks.

It was this march and the subsequent illegal production of salt (Gandhi boiled up some salty mud in seawater) that spurred hundreds of thousands across India to join in the illegal production, buying, or selling of salt. It was also from here that on 12 March 1930, Gandhi marched to Dandi, 241 miles from the ashram, with 78 companions in protest at the British Salt Law, which increased the taxes on Indian salt in an effort to promote sales of British salt in India. While at the ashram, Gandhi formed a tertiary school that focused on manual labor, agriculture, and literacy, in order to advance his efforts for the nation's self-sufficiency. Mohandas Gandhi said, 'This is the right place for our activities to carry on the search for truth and develop fearlessness, for on one side are the iron bolts of the foreigners, and on the other the thunderbolts of Mother Nature.' The Sabarmati ashram is sited between a prison and a crematorium, and Gandhi believed that a satyagrahi has invariably to go to either place. His main ashram lies in Naimisharanya, near Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. It is believed that this is one of the ancient ashram sites of Dadhichi Rishi who had donated his bones for a righteous war. So two years later, on 17 June 1917, the ashram was relocated to an area of thirty-six acres on the banks of the river Sabarmati, and it came to be known as the Sabarmati Ashram. But Gandhi wanted to carry out various activities such as farming and animal husbandry, in addition to other pursuits which called for the need of a much larger area of usable land. At that time the ashram was called the Satyagraha Ashram. Gandhiji's India ashram was originally established at the Kocharab Bungalow of Jivanlal Desai, a barrister, and friend of Gandhi, on.

Gandhiji's ashram