The Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum was created due to one man’s passion for collecting artifacts
"The biggest challenge for a museum is to bring objects to life,” said patron of the arts, urban environmental activist and businessman Cyrus Guzder while reopening to the public the Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum (AM) situated in Khareghat Colony on March 27, 2025. Guzder termed the 73-year-old community Museum that had been undergoing a makeover for over a decade, "a wonderful institution gifted to the city of Bombay.” Stating that many museums had their origins in "one person’s passion for collection,” Guzder referred to Alpaiwalla, a bullion trader, filling 11 rooms of his house at the corner of Princess Street......