LAHORE MUSEUM

Lahore Museum is located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, It was established in

1894 and is one of the major museums of South Asia. Lahore Museum is also known as Central Museum, and is located on The Mall. Rudyard Kipling's father John Lockwood Kipling, was one of the famous curators of the museum and the novel Kim was set in the vicinity of the Lahore Museum. Over 250,000 admissions were registered in 2005.

It is located opposite the old University Hall, a Mughal-style building on the Shahrah-e-Quaid-e-Azam. The Museum contains some fine specimens of Mughal and Sikh door-ways and wood-work and contains a large collection of paintings dating back to the Mughal, Sikh andBritish eras.

The Museum has also a collection of musical instruments, ancient jewellery, textiles, potte

ry and armory. There are relics from the Graeco-Bactrian times as well as well as some Tibetanand Nepalese work. The museum has a number of objects of Greco-Buddhist sculptures,Mughal and Pahari paintings on display. The Fasting Buddha is one of the unique collections of the museum — in 2004 Nobuaki Tanaka, the Japanese ambassador, agreed to provide technical know how as the Buddha is popular with Japanese

tourists.