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Museums in Pakistan
offer some of the best collection of the Moghul, Gandhara, & Indus Valley civilizations' artefacts,
sculptures, manuscripts, coins, and statues.
Archaeological Museum
Location Quetta.
Display Weapon, Ceramic, Manuscripts, Mineral, & Paintings.
Located at Jinnah Road
and close from the city. It has five galleries, which consists of Weapon
Gallery, Ceramic Gallery, Manuscripts section, Mineral section and Paintings
section
This museum was started in Quetta
as early as 1900 and it was formally opened in 1906. However, this museum was
severally damaged during the devastating earthquake of 1935. Since then
several attempts to revive one of the earliest Museums of the country could
not mature for a long time.
Dir Museum
Location Dir. Display Archaeological.
Dir museum is also a fine exhibit of unique Gandhara pieces is housed in
the Dir museum at Chakdara, which offers a comprehensive catalogue
Islamabad Museum
Location House #41, street #3, Sector E-7, Islamabad. Display Archaeological.
Islamabad museum presents a long historic
sequence of the land where Pakistan
is situated today. Pakistan
has been a seat of the worlds leading civilizations from the time immemorial.
There is plenty of evidence to support this argument now on display in Islamabad Museum. For example, 20 million years
old fossil remains, 2 million years old man-made stone tools, 7000 years old
early human settlements which lead to the world famous Indus Civilization,
Gandhara Grave Culture and Gandhara art, early Islamic settlement and Mughal
period, their art and craft.
Lahore Museum   
Location Opposite side of Punjab university old campus in city of Lahore. Display
Archaeological.
On the far side of Zamzma is the Lahore
Central Museum
built in Mughal Gothic style and opened in 1894 is the best museum in Pakistan with superb collection of relics of
rich cultural heritage of Lahore.
The rare collection of Mughal paintings, statues of Buddha in various
attitudes including the priceless 'Fasting Buddha', also other examples of
Gandhara sculpture and evidence reflecting the successive stages of the
oriental civilization, miniature paintings, manuscripts are on display.
There are fine specimens of Mughal and Sikh doorways and woodwork and has
a big collection of musical instruments, ancient jewelry, pottery, textiles
and armory. There are also relics from the Graeco- Pactrian times as well as
some Tibetan and Nepalese.A visit to the Lahore museum will prove to be a rewarding
experience.
National Museum   
Location Karachi.
Display Cultural.
The basic objective of national museum is to collect, preserve, and study
and exhibit the records of the cultural history of a country and to promote a
learned insight into the personality of its people. With this in view: the
National Museum of Pakistan was opened at Karachi in 1951 in the historic
building of Frere Hall, built in 1865, a monument to Sir Bartle Frere,
Commissioner of Sind in the last century.
Peshawar Museum  
Location Peshawar.
Display Archaeological.
The Peshawar
Museum is a wonderful
places full of a vertiable treasures of art, sculpture and historic relics.
It was founded in 1907. Its red bricks building consist of spacious hall, for
side galleries two on the ground and two on upper story. The main hall and
three galleries are reserved for exhibition of Ghundjara Sculptures,
terracotta figurines, lithic inscriptions, toilet, trays, household objects
etc. we can see the colossal standing Buddha and a large number of Buddha
heads in various sizes both in stone and stucco are on display here. The
other sections of museum covered the era of Muslims and Tribal. The prize
possession of the museum is however, the Kanishka casket recovered from
Shah-ji-Dheri on the outskirts of Peshawar
during the archeological excavations conducted in 1908-9. The inscribed
casket in Kharosti contained three fragments of bone of the Buddha, which
were given by the British Government to the Buddhist Society of Burma, which
re-shrined them at Madalay. This famous casket is on display in this
museum.There are some engraved gems, pottery, ivory shells and metal objects.
Electrotypes of the early coins of the northwest frontier and lithic
inscriptions in Kharoshti, sardar garhi.
Taxila Museum    
Location Taxila . Display Archaeological.
The archaeological museum at Taxila is a real treasure house. Its
collection of coins, jewelry, relics and gold and silver Caskets alone are
worth a King's ransom. But its real glory comes from stone and stuccoes that
exquisite young. It's impressive Collection will help you get to know
Gautama, the Lord Buddha, better.  
The ivy-covered, Gothic-style museum is set in a picturesque garden. There
is in the central hall a plaster cast of the stupa Topped with seven
umbrellas found in Mohra Moradu. A relief map of the valley pinpoints the
location for the different Excavated sites.
There are rows of cases filled with the famed sculptures, stucco relieves,
stones, plaster and terra-cotta figures, glass tiles and Such objects as
toilet articles, seats, beads, bark manuscripts, silver utensils, carpentry
tools, surgical instruments and much else. A nominal entry fee is charged at
the museum.
Pakistan Museum of Natural History
Location In the city of Islamabad.
Display Natural History.
The Museum depicts early human history, geology, and wildlife of Pakistan.
The exhibits are particular interest to students and children.
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