Among the many features of the stone structure is a museum and artwork from the Sanskrit epic the Ramayana.
The museum, a stone's throw from the river, is surrounded by tasteful inner-city apartments and close to the striking Bonnefanten, where art works by modern and old masters find a comfortable home together.
The Director-General also went on a tour of the Stone Town, and visited the Museum as well as other historic places.
In an adjacent site museum, she viewed stone sculptures, plaques, copper coins and other artifacts bearing witness to a once renown centre of Buddhist religion and study.
He uncovers a French plot to infiltrate the museum and snatch the Rosetta Stone (the ancient artefact that provides the key to Egyptian hieroglyphs) in order to return it not to Egypt but to France, which first discovered and translated it.
However museum officials were accused of "dereliction of duty" by English Heritage after it was revealed contractors used the wrong kind of stone to build the South Portico feature of the London museum.
"A loan request regarding the Rosetta Stone was received and acknowledged, " says a spokeswoman for the British Museum.
Thanks to "Scenes From the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux, " at the Field Museum in Chicago, visitors can now see life-size replicas of half a dozen sections of the caves.
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The foundation stone of the guildhall was laid on 5 September 1687 and the extension in which the museum is housed was completed in 1830.
He objects to monolithic buildings like New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which separate their collections from the hubbub of the street with vast staircases and thick stone walls.
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