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Best Museums to visit in Pakistan

Best Museums to visit in Pakistan

There are numerous well-maintained and top-notch museums in Pakistan spread over a number of different regions. If you’re traveling to Pakistan, you can visit these best museums in Pakistan whenever you like. They contain historical relics and a wide range of cultural heritage that you may enjoy.

Both visitors and locals should continue to visit museums that would further their grasp of Pakistan’s history, art, and culture. Although a lot of individuals have hectic schedules presently, one should always take a moment to appreciate the cultural treasures that either their own or other countries have to offer. Even travelers relish touring museums to discover the country’s history and culture that they are traveling to. Seriously, though! I definitely suggest taking a tour of a museum because it is one of my favorite excursions. A trip to the museum is indeed thrilling and delightful.

In the listing beneath, we’ve included some of the best museums in Pakistan that you’ll want to ponder exploring when making travel plans there. I promise you won’t be let down, but rather amazed! So, keep reading!

Lok Virsa

Islamabad is home to the Lok Virsa Museum. The National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage of Lok Virsa, oversees its administration. Since Lok Virsa is so widely known and receives a number of tourists every day, many of you must have heard of it. In addition to indoor and outdoor spaces, the museum has a number of structures. The museum showcases Pakistanis’ rich cultural heritage. Therefore, music, textiles, statuary, and paintings all serve as visual representations of Pakistani culture. It is regarded to be one of Pakistan’s best cultural museums.

 

Taxila Museum

The Taxila Museum is situated in the Pakistani province of Punjab in Taxila which is only an hour ride from Islamabad. A substantial and extensive inventory of Harappan art from the early centuries can be observed within the museum. The preponderance of the antiquities in the assemblage was discovered in the prehistoric Taxila remains. Near the museum, there are numerous additional historical places. A substantial array of Harappan art is preserved at the Taxila Museum. More than 4000 relics, featuring stones, gold, silver, carvings, figures made of stones, utensils, ceramics, medieval coins, and a broad selection of certain other materials, are all on the exhibition here. If you are researching Taxila’s history, this location ought to be on your checklist.

 

Pakistan Air Force Museum

The Pakistan Air Force Museum was inaugurated in 1990 and is located in Karachi. But as it flourished from 1999 to 2004, it added restaurants, kid’s activity facilities, and attractions. The Pakistan Air Force Museum, often known as P.A.F Museum, is a building and garden that exhibits all of the principal fighter jets as well as other airplanes that the Pakistan Air Force has ever commanded. The Pakistan Air Force’s arsenal of fighter jets and munitions is on display in the primary museum. Prior to approaching the main museum area, the majority of weaponry and aviation are showcased in the park area. The biggest highlights of the establishment include jets taken from Indian forces during the battle with India in 1965 and Jinnah’s Vickers VC.1 Viking. For the entertainment of those interested in World War events, scale replicas of fighter jets from World Wars I and II are also displayed alongside contemporary aircraft.

Peshawar Museum

Due to its collection of Buddhist sculptures from the Gandhara era, the Peshawar Museum, which is located there, is one of Southeast Asia’s most frequented museums. The museum is really quite large; it features lithic writings, Buddhist historical plaques, Gandhara artworks, Kalash wooden sculptures, Buddha statues in variable size, etc. One day would not be enough to see the entirety of the historical archive due to its sheer size. The Muslim and indigenous eras are addressed in the other museum departments. At the Peshawar Museum, there is so much to discover that you surely ought to go there.

 

State Bank Museum

The State Bank of Pakistan Museum and Art Gallery is a Karachi institution that opened its doors in 2004. Every day, a large number of people go there. This museum was established to debut Pakistan’s first currency museum. For the general public’s usage, the museum has various sets of collections. They feature a currency exhibition where all of Pakistan’s vintage currency alongside those from other nations are also displayed there. However, they also feature a coin collection with ancient machinery, coin-making equipment, as well as other objects. People who are utterly fascinated by antiquity should certainly pay the museum a visit because it highlights the ancient treasures of the subcontinent.

 

Lahore Museum

Constructed during the British era, the Lahore Museum is nestled in Lahore. The structure is imposing and features red bricks after Mughal influences. The Lahore Museum is among Pakistan’s most prominent museums and maintains one of the oldest existing inventories of cultural, artistic, and historical traces. Rare scrolls, Gandhara statues, tiny artworks, and ancient primitive coins are preserved there. This museum’s collections have generated a large audience of intellectuals, researchers, tourists, and pupils. As a result, if you’ve never been to the Lahore Museum yet, you better schedule a visit soon.

 

Conclusion

Add one of Pakistan’s best museums to your trip itinerary; you’ll be impressed at how well the country’s cultural heritage has been preserved there and you’ll get a chance to discover more about Pakistan’s history.

 

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