Facade, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum Public Deposited

On 1st November 1858, Queen Victoria was proclaimed Queen of India from the Town Hall steps. It was decided in a meeting of Mumbai citizens that the first public institution should be a museum to honor the new Queen, with the botanical gardens attached to it. Governor Sir Bartle Frere laid the foundation stone for the museum on 19th November 1862.

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