Prince of Wales Museum

Prince of Wales Museum Review

Topped with Moorish domes, Mumbai's finest Victorian building and principal museum was completed in 1911 and named for King George V, who laid the cornerstone in 1905. It's divided into three sections: art, archaeology, and natural history. Unofortunately, its 30,000 artifacts, most of which are extremely interesting, are shown in a slightly dusty environment, with often poor lighting. The picture gallery contains scores of Mogul and Rajput miniature paintings, works by European and contemporary Indian artists, and copies of magnificent cave temple paintings from Ajanta. The museum was some time back renamed the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, but don't ask for directions to this—no one would have ever heard of it.