Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya

The museum came into being after some of the city's most prominent citizens resolved to build a public museum, as a memorial to mark the visit of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) in 1905. The foundation stone for CSMVS was laid later in the same year by the Prince himself. The building for the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India was completed by 1914, but was used by the military as a hospital during the First World War. It was opened to the public only in 1922 after being inaugurated by Lady Lloyd, the wife of the Governor of Bombay.