The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya in Mumbai, formerly the Prince of Wales Museum, was designed by George Wittet, chosen in a 1909 competition, for a committee of prominent Bombay citizens. The Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone on November 11, 1905. The building was completed in 1915 and inaugurated on January 10, 1922, the date the infobox gives as established.
The article calls the style Indo-Saracenic, drawing on Mughal, Maratha and Jain features. It uses grey Kurla basalt and buff Malad trachyte, with a central dome over a three-story rectangular plan. The site is about 3 acres (12,000 square meters).
It served as a children's welfare center and military hospital in World War I. It was renamed in 1998 and has been part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2018. About 50,000 artifacts cover Indian history. The article gives no hours.
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