One man's collection, and it is enormous: 40,000 objects from Mughal daggers to a Veiled Rebecca marble and a musical clock that draws a crowd every hour.
Closed on Fridays. Phones are allowed but photography inside the galleries is not. Be at the musical clock a few minutes before the hour.
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