Place · art & history museum · India
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai
Also known as CSMVS, Prince of Wales Museum, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya
The former Prince of Wales Museum, built between 1909 and 1922 by George Wittet in Indo-Saracenic style and renamed in 1998 after the Maratha king. The collection spans Harappan artefacts, Gandhara sculpture, Rajput and Mughal miniature painting, Nepali and Tibetan art, Chinese and Japanese decorative art, and natural history. The museum received a UNESCO Asia-Pacific Award in 2010 for its conservation. It sits beside the Elphinstone College / Fort District colonial-era institutional ensemble and holds the Karl and Meherbai Khandalavala collection of Indian miniatures.
- Date
- 1909–1922
- Function
- Learning & scholarship
- Patron dynasty
- British Raj · Indian Union
- Tradition
- Standard reference; INTACH, ASI and municipal records; institutional histories.
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 18.927, 72.832
Connections (1)
- Site withinMumbai
The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (former Prince of Wales Museum) sits in south Mumbai's Fort district beside the Elphinstone College and the Bombay University's own Victorian Gothic ensemble. The museum is one of the subcontinent's major national-level collections and defines the city's cultural institutional geography. Project Bharatam records the specific site and the city together.