This would have worked better if the line had been spoken by a human rather than a building.
At any rate, this seems to be set in the late 1800’s, and people had in some sense been collecting antiques for hundreds of years by then, beginning with ancient Greek art, expanding to ancient Egyptian art with Napoleon’s adventures in Egypt, and by the late 1800’s including all manner of mostly plundered grave goods from around the world.
This would have worked better if the line had been spoken by a human rather than a building.
At any rate, this seems to be set in the late 1800’s, and people had in some sense been collecting antiques for hundreds of years by then, beginning with ancient Greek art, expanding to ancient Egyptian art with Napoleon’s adventures in Egypt, and by the late 1800’s including all manner of mostly plundered grave goods from around the world.