The world famous Prince of Wales Museum is located in the ancient city of Mumbai (Bombay), in the southern part of it, right next to one another in this town - the gateway to India. The museum was built on the initiative and at the expense of honorary citizens of Mumbai in honor of the Prince of Wales, the future British King George V, who in 1905 and laid the first stone of the building. Under its construction it was allotted a plot of land just over 1 hectare under the name «Crescent Site» («Crescent"), and the main architect was chosen Uittet George, who later became famous as another successful project - already referred to Gateway of India. The construction of this grand museum was in 1915. But during the First World War the building was used as a children's center and a military hospital, and only in 1922 was opened a full-fledged museum.

It is a basalt three-storey building of rectangular shape, made in the Indo-Saracenic style. Its roof is decorated with a large dome, trimmed with white and blue tiles, which is kind of an additional floor, and it seems a full moon, the half-walls of the museum. This dome, along with balconies and tiled floors added to the building features typical buildings of the time of the great Mughals.

In the early 2000s, the museum was renamed as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, in honor of the founder of the Maratha Empire - Shivaji.

The museum collection is very large and has about 50 thousand exhibits collected not only in India but around the world. It is divided into three main sections: art, archeology and natural history, as well as, since 2008, have been added to several galleries dedicated to the god Krishna, the textile industry and traditional Indian costume, and miniature paintings.

Today, the museum is in the care of the government and the Bombay Municipal Corporation, which annually provides grants to various programs to him.