In this article, we study the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás type theorem for minimum attaining operators. More explicitly, if we consider a bounded linear operator T on a Hilbert space H and a unit vector x0 ∈ H such that ‖Tx0‖ is very close to the minimum modulus of T, then T and x0 are simultaneously approximated by a minimum attaining operator S on H and a unit vector y ∈ H for which ‖Sy‖ is equal to the minimum modulus of S . Further, we extend this result to a more general class of densely defined closed operators (need not be bounded) in Hilbert space. As a consequence, we get the denseness of the set of minimum attaining operators in the class of densely defined closed operators with respect to the gap metric. © ELEMENT, Zagreb.