The Humayun's Tomb World Heritage Site Museum seamlessly blends modern 21st-century architecture with Mughal-era craftsmanship. The principal structure, located six metres below ground level, houses galleries that rise four feet above the ground and is crowned by a roof, reminiscent of a Mughal garden. Its interior takes visitors on a captivating journey through seven centuries of Nizamuddin’s rich heritage via a blend of digital experiences, gardens, and galleries that shed light on an important period of India’s history. The building serves as an underground bridge connecting the Humayun’s Tomb complex with the adjacent Sunder Nursery.

The exhibition conveys the unique 700 years of rich heritage legacy of the Nizamuddin area – with stories of the monuments, people and their associated
intangible heritage of music, poetry, Sufi practices, pluralist culture of the scared landscape – including the architectural style, cuisine, craft traditions. Together with all of these exhibits, the exhibition brings alive Khusrau’s verses, ‘If there is paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this’.