The
Bhau Daji Lad Museum (formerly the Victoria and Albert Museum) is the
oldest museum in Mumbai. It was originally established in 1855 as a
treasure house of the decorative and industrial arts. The construcition
of the present building in Jijamata Udyan in Byculla started in 1862 and
was completed in 1871. The museum was opened on May 2, 1872. In 1975,
this museum was renamed as the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum.
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Sculptures showcasing the different hats and turbans worn by different communities living in Mumbai
A marble bust of David Sassoon, who was the treasurer of Baghdad between 1817 and 1829 and then the leader of the Jewish community in Bombay. Sassoon became a naturalised British citizen in 1853. Sassoon was a middleman between British textile firms and Gulf commodities merchants, and later invested in valuable harbor properties.
ea shell carving from around the 19th century.
Photographer: Chintamon, Hurrichund--Date: 1867--the figure seated on the left is Dr Bhau Dajee
Posed group of six figures taken by Hurrichund Chintamon c. 1867, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections. This photograph was shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1867. The European on the left is identified simply as 'A German', three other figures as 'Parsees', the figure seated on the left as Dr Bhau Dajee, and the figure seated on the right, as 'Shenoy' (?). Parsees are descendants of the Persian followers of Zoroaster who fled to India in the seventh and eighth centuries to escape Muslim persecution.
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