MUMBAI: Mumbai has fewer museums than you can count on your fingers, and one of the big ones has been shut for the better part of the past five years. Until Wednesday that is. On that day, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated the newly restored and repaired Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Byculla, nestled in the Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Udyan & Zoo. The museum will be thrown open to the public on Thursday.
The Who's Who of dignitaries were present at the opening: municipal commissioner Bhushan Gagrani, MP Milind Deora, ex-MLA Yamini Jadhav, AMC Amit Saini, AMC Ashwini Joshi and minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha.
"There is no other building quite like this in the country," said a beaming Tasneem Mehta, managing trustee and honorary director of the museum who was responsible for bringing the building back to its original glory in 2008, getting it the UNESCO Asia Pacific Heritage Award of Excellence for Conservation. "The oldest museum in Maharashtra and the third oldest in India, it is a confluence of the melting pot that Bombay was. A novelty to which over 3,000 visitors would come in a single day in the nineteenth century."
This story is from the January 09, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Navi Mumbai.
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