CELLULAR JAIL

Cellular Jail, located at Port Blair, stood mute witness to the tortures meted out to the freedom fighters, who were incarcerated in this jail. The jail, completed in the year 1906 acquired the name ‘Cellular’ because it is entirely made up of individual cells for the solitary confinement. It originally was a seven prolonged, puce-colored building with central-tower acting as its fulcrum and a massive structure comprising honeycomb-like corridors.

The building was subsequently damaged and presently three out of the seven prongs are intact. The Jail, now a place of pilgrimage for all freedom loving people, has been declared a National Memorial. The jail museum here draws your memories back to those years of the freedom struggle.

After Independence in 1947, many of the erstwhile Political Prisoners visited the islands. Their association-“Ex-Andaman Political Prisoner’s Fraternity Circle” took up the issue with the Government of India, who accepting this proposal agreed to preserve it as National Memorial without making any substantial charge. The Memorial was dedicated to the nation by the then Prime Minister of India on 11th February 1979.

Today the entrance block of the National Memorial houses, Freedom Fighters Photo and Exhibition Gallery in the Ground Floor. The first floor of the building has an Art Gallery, Netaji Gallery and a Library on Freedom Movement. Gallery on First War of Independence and on Old Photographs Gallery have also been set up in the premises of the National Memorial. An eternal flame of Freedom-Swatantrya Jyot has been erected in the vicinity of the Cellular Jail in memory of all freedom fighters and martyrs. 

TIMINGS FOR CELLULAR JAIL & JAIL MUSEUM:

09:00 AM to 12:30 PM, 01:30 PM to 04:45 PM (Open all days except national holidays)

Entry Fee (INR) :30/-, Camera: 200/-, Video Camera:1000/-, Film shooting per day with prior permission  10000/-

SON-ET-LUMIERE (SOUND & LIGHT SHOW) AT CELLULAR JAIL

The saga of the heroic freedom struggle, brought alive in a moving Son-et-Lumiere, in the Cellular Jail, is very popular among the tourists.

Cellular Jail Light Sound-Show

Entry fee for Child is 25/- (INR) and for Adult is 50/- (INR). The timing for Sound & Light Show at Cellular Jail :

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