items
such as metalwork, ivory carvings, cane wood articles and exquisite pieces
of jewellery, textile, pottery and paintings. It is particularly rich in
specimen of embossed, hammered and chiselled brass wares. The building was
designed by Colonel Sir Swinton Jacob in the modern Indo-Saracenic style and
was built in 1886 A.D. when King Edward VII visited as the Prince of Wales.
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