Front view of the entrance to the museum.

Lahore Museum was established in 1894 in Lahore, Pakistan, 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.^[1]

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 and British eras.

The Museum has also a collection of musical instruments, ancient jewellery, textiles, pottery and armory. There are relics from the Graeco-Bactrian times as well as well as some Tibetan and 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^[2].

The Zamzama in front of the Museum, also known as "Kim's Gun" from its appearance in Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim.

[edit] Exhibits

• Astrolabe

[edit] See also

• National Museum of Pakistan
• Zamama

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Lahore Museum as it looked in 1900
• Lahore Museum — Central Museum
• Photographs and in-situ description of the famous 'fasting Buddha' from the Museum's collection

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