The imposing, sombre facade of architectural aspirations inspired by neoclassical sentiments, stands resolute against the light of day and the wear of time as a secure vault to the treasures of human knowledge and understanding of natural history, guarded by forward facing obsidian statues that are ever watchful in their eternal posture for the future momentums to ripple through time and space.

And behind the stone face constructed from a practised application of minimalistic grace, is a flourish of extravagance that borrows much from renaissance and baroque design elements before, through pained extraction, achieving the magnificence into physical manifestations of cream coloured marble that is primarily employed to lend the space within an ambience of wealth, in tandem to the sparkling tint of rich emanated from the gilded cornices and furnishings, that alludes not to material jewels and coins, but to the knowledge that nourishes and nurtures intelligence amongst humankind.

Housed within these premises are objects and information that have come to be possessed by the museum through a continued passion and ambition initiated in the 1800s to remain as a stalwart proponent for the preservation of matters of historical significance in the interest of posterity, but more so it is a noble duty of disseminating facts to facilitate the liberation of shackled persons from Plato’s cave.