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Cities & Towns
Maharashtra
Mumbai
Destination
Forts, Palaces, Monuments and Museums
Prince of Wales Museum
This museum is divided into three floors with several galleries:
art, archaeology, maritime, natural history etc. The ground floor
gallery has a sculptures section and the natural history section. The
natural history section has a large selection of Indian birds, snakes
and stuffed animals ranging from rhinos to monkeys and lions to deer.
The ground floor gallery has artifacts from Elephanta Island and Jogeshwari
Caves. Other collections include terracotta figurines from the Indus Valley,
ivory carvings, Chinese and Japanese art, portrait of Abraham Lincoln,
and an excellent collection of Indian miniature paintings etc. In 1990
the museum was awarded Urban Heritage Award of the Bombay Chapter of the
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