Prince of Wales Museum
Prince of Wales Museum is the primary exhibition hall of Mumbai. It was established in the early years of the twentieth century by unmistakable subjects of Bombay, with the assistance of the legislature, to recognize the visit of the then Prince of Wales. It is found in the heart of South Mumbai close to the Gateway of India. The exhibition hall building, manufactured of provincially quarried ash Kurla basalt and buff hued trachyte Malad stone, is a three-storied rectangular structure, topped by an arch set upon a base, which includes an extra story in the inside of the building. Implicit the Western Indian and Indo-Saracenic style of construction modeling, the building suits a focal door patio, above which climbs an arch, "tiled in white and blue specks, upheld on a lotus - petal base". A bunch of apexes, finished with smaller than normal arches encompass the focal vault. The building consolidates peculiarities like Islamic arch with a finial alongside distending galleries and decorated carpets, enlivened by Mughal royal residence structural engineering. The planner, George Wittet, demonstrated the arch on that of Golconda Fort and the inward vaulting curves on those at the Gol Gumbaz in Bijapur. The inner part of the historical center joins the segments, railings and gallery of an eighteenth century Wada with Jain style inside sections, which structure the principle assemblage of the focal structure beneath the Maratha overhang.
