Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Museum and library in Fort district, Mumbai, India

The Asiatic Society of Mumbai occupies the Town Hall, a white classical building completed in 1830 with a triangular pediment inscribed "THE ASIATIC SOCIETY, MUMBAI", "STATE CENTRAL LIBRARY", "TOWN HALL" and "1804". Eight fluted columns stand above a wide stone staircase, and behind them are shuttered windows with decorative brackets.

The Society was founded in 1804 and emerged from merging multiple organizations, though it received its current name later. It developed into a key center for gathering and preserving knowledge about Asia.

The library holds manuscripts and prints consulted by scholars from around the world studying texts on Persia, India, and classical antiquity. The reading room captures the rhythm of an academic site where the quiet of study blends with conversation between researchers.

The building also houses the State Central Library, a museum, the Maharashtra Women's Association and the Additional Stamp Controller Office, so entrances and opening hours differ by institution. The Town Hall stands at Horniman Circle in the Fort district, near the Reserve Bank of India. The library has five reading rooms, including a General Reading Room and a separate Research Room.

The Divine Comedy manuscript was donated by Mountstuart Elphinstone, governor of Bombay and society president from 1819 to 1827, and bears his signature. In the 1930s Mussolini's government offered one million pounds for it as a national treasure; the society refused, saying a former member had given it to them.