Victoria and Albert Museum Mumbai
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Introduction:
Mumbai is the largest of all the populated cities in Maharashtra and is also the capital of Maharashtra too. Mumbai facilitates everything ranging from luxurious facilities to the most drastic diseases and from leading hosts for business centers to the biggest slums. Mumbai is the main business center of almost whole of India. Mumbai is one of the major cities in the world that is known for leading in anything and everything. Mumbai is too vast and many interesting sight seeing places are available in this city. Mumbai has many display museums in the city.
The old and present condition:
The Victoria and Albert Museum, some people rarely know Mumbai. Some don't even know whether it exists or no. Some of the people know it by the name of Bhau Daji Lad Museum . Victoria and Albert Museum, Mumbai is one of the oldest museums in this city. It has been named after the original museum located in India. It was named in the year 1872. This museum has been under renovation for almost one and a half year under the supervision of Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, Mumbai . This museum is situated in between the gardens called as the Jijamata Udyan . It was also known as the Victoria Garden/Zoo. One may rarely find such a beautiful garden, which provides as a backdrop this old museum, and bring life to it. It is just a single storeyed square building, which looks totally old and ruined, and one may not even expect it to be the actual museum. This museum has been lived so long that even the labels on the information panels have turned yellow and rusted. There are heavy glass cases and oversized pedestals present in this museum. This look has been changed with the help of INTACH.
History:
This Victoria and Albert museum, Mumbai was built due to the idea of Dr. Buist , in the year 1884 when the whole country was under the rule of East India Company. Dr. Buist was a collector. His Idea flourished and gave birth to various other museums like the Central Museum of Natural History, Economy, Geology, Industry and Arts . The then Governor of Bombay Presidency, Lord Elphistone , was among its first patrons| Hotels in Mumbai | |
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