The Museum Reopened
On March 4, 2010, it was reopened as the country's first Maritime Archaeology Museum. The Dutch warehouse was of 40,000 square feet (3,700 m2) was renovated under a special grant of Rs.177 million from the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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