Bahawalpur Museum Explained
Bahawalpur Museum |
Native Name: | Urdu: بہاولپور عجائب گھر |
Native Name Lang: | ur |
Coordinates: | 29.39°N 71.6856°W |
Location: | Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan |
Type: | Archaeology, art, heritage, modern history, religious |
Visitors: | 28,000 |
Director: | Muhammad Zubair Rabbani |
The Bahawalpur Museum (Urdu: بہاولپور عجائب گھر), established in 1976, is a museum of archaeology, art, heritage, modern history and religion located in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan.[1] It comes under the control of Bahawalpur district government.
As of July 2022, the director of the museum is Muhammad Zubair Rabbani.[2]
Galleries
The museum as eight galleries, which include:
- Pakistan Movement gallery, consisting of a collection of photographs related to the Movement, including those of its leaders.
- Archaeological gallery, which represents the archaeological history of the region.
- Islamic gallery, which exhibits arms, paintings, textile specimen, and metal work related to the history of Islam.
- Regional cultural gallery, containing specimens of everyday objects used by people in the Cholistan Desert and the Bahawalnagar, Bahawalpur, and Rahim Yar Khan districts.
- Coin gallery, consisting of more than 300 coins
- Quran gallery, containing manuscripts, inscriptions and Quranic documents.
- Bahawalpur gallery, showing photographs and articles related to the princely state of Bahawalpur, which was the second-largest state in the British Raj.[3]
- Cholistan gallery, displaying art and heritage of the Cholistan region.
- Sadiq Khan Gallery[4]
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Bahawalpur Museum. District Government Bahawalpur. bahawalpur.gov.pk. December 1, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100817054408/http://www.bahawalpur.gov.pk/muse.htm. August 17, 2010. dead.
- Web site: 31 May 2022 . 275th celebrations of Bahawalpur State will be held in Feb 2023 . 8 July 2022 . Associated Press of Pakistan.
- Web site: Ahmad . Mashal . 2 August 2020 . Retracing Bahawalpur's glorious past . 2022-07-08 . . en.
- https://www.dawn.com/news/204492/sadiq-khan-gallery-at-bahawalpur-museum