Prince of Wales Museum of Western India

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya is the main museum in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India.

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  • Phone

    +91 22 2284 4484

  • Website

    csmvs.in

  • Type

    History Museum

Address

159-161 M.G. Road, Fort Mumbai 400023 Mahārāshtra India

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Cecilia Ling

The museum is bigger than thought, spend 3 hours there . The most beautiful collections are all on top floors , better upside down start from top not bottom

Vivek Venkatram

Constructed in 1904, it is built in the Indo–Saracenic style of architecture . It has a remarkable collection comprising approximately 50,000 artifacts originating from different eras of Indian history

The Artificial

This 20th century building houses nearly 50,000 artifacts of art , archeology and natural history . They have a free audio guide which you can get from the information counter.

Midia

A museum in 3 floors which has Some litthle sections for Iran(assyrian dynasty) Chinese and japanies art . Not a very big musuem but worth to go and not forget to get photo allowing sticker

Phillip Bracewell

Only one or two rooms have a/c so dress appropriately. Which you should be since this is India. Great exhibits and free audio tour with foreigner admission.

Mike Brosche

Start on second floor and work your way down, the Film on Mumbai in the auditorium near the entry is worth seeing

Siddhartha Banerjee

Mumbai’s biggest and best museum , this domed behemoth is an intriguing hodgepodge of Islamic, Hindu and British architecture displaying a mix of dusty exhibits from all over India.

Pearson - Always Learning

The Prince of Wales Museum holds a fascinating range of over 50,000 objects from home and abroad, so you’re sure to learn something new on every visit.

ITC Hotels

The largest museum in Mumbai. Inside are antiques like old sculptures , Mughal paintings , ancient artifacts from the Indus Valley & tools handmade weapons

Indian Drives

Liked the ambience of the place. It's spacious and quite and that too in such an upmarket hustling bustling area of Mumbai.

Anupam Gupta

Good to see they've maintained the place well . Stop by at the gift shop . I found it worth my time.

Gayatri Nayak

Awesome art work on 2nd floor and the natural habitat on the ground floor :)

Sohini Mitter

Fabulous haunt if history interest you. Do not forget to check out the brilliant coin collections & the natural history section. A great place to be!!! Read more

Gabriel Seah

You didn't come here for them but the Japanese and European collections are decent. There's even a Veronese

Midia

Here has a very nice garden And building

Colton Staab

Architecture is cool and the sculpture gallery is interesting, but the rest of the exhibitions are just okay

Lina

Beautiful serene grounds; Impressive bldg

Susy L. 廖淑慧

very very nice museum ... beautiful building and great collections

Archerspy

A must for everyone who visits Mumbai. Very much accessible from CST Station.

Fuyuhiko Takaya

I visited this musium in Aug 2011. Experience the beautiful colonial architecture ! See the link for the photo !! Read more

Lauren

Beautiful architecture !

Andrey Bezotechestvo

Great place!!!must visit!

Keegan

complimentary audio tour with foreign ticket. great commentary by sunny singh ;)

Ananth

The Paramparik Karigar event was simply fabulous: http://goo.gl/kwbNh

Sean Mascarenhas

Worth the visit.

Priya Shah

Lots to learn! Read everything :)

Ankit Khandelwal

Great museum for both Manmade and Natural history .

John

Nice collection of gods and demi gods

Karan

The audio guide is a must as most exhibits lack a descriptive text.

Parama Bhadra

Educative + interesting weekend spot!

Sushant Yattam

Must visit

Siddharth Adelkar

breathtaking

MartyJimbo

very worth seeing - it is not air conditioned so dress accordingly!

Patryck C

Une des plus belles constitution de la ville . Le musée est en constante rénovation . Il y a des salles à l'ancienne, aérée au moyen de ventilateur comme des salles nouvelles dotées de la climatisation

Denis Duster

No aircon la :(

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