Lahore Museum

The Lahore Museum or Ajaib Ghar (Urdu: Wonder House) is a museum in the city of Lahore, Pakistan. It is the largest and best museum in the country.

History
The original old Lahore Museum was made during British Indian times in the 1860s, in what had been the old 'Punjab Exhibition Hall'Handbook of the Punjab,Lahore, 1864 and the famous gun Zam Zama was installed outside it in 1870. This old museum, along with the Punjab School of Arts (later the Mayo College of Arts) was looked after by John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911) father of the writer Rudyard Kipling, who mentioned the museum and Zam Zama in his Kim (book) (1901).Peter Hopkirk, Quest for Kim, London:J Murray, 1996, pp.42-45 In 1894, the museum's new building was completed and it moved therethe old building then became the Tollinton Market, Lahore the same year, right opposite the old campus of the University of the Punjab, on the Mall.

Collection
The Lahore Museum is set in its beautiful grounds and has one of the best collections of arts and artifacts in its galleries in South Asia. Especially notable are: 

 ancient Gandhara Buddhist sculptures
 Tibetan and Hill States collection
 collection of miniature paintings from the Mughal Empire and the Pahari school 
 collection of contemporary paintings by some of Pakistan's most prominent artists such as Ustad Allah Bux, A.R. Chughtai, Shakir Ali, Sadequain, Gulgee and others.

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Other websites

Lahore Museum as it looked in 1900

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