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

• List of museums in Pakistan
• Bahawalpur Airport
• Bahawalpur Zoo
• Derawar Fort
• Noor Mahal

External links

• Facebook page
• News: Video about spring festival at Bahawalpur Museum. World News. wn.com. December 1, 2010. ur.

Notes and References

1. 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.
2. Web site: 31 May 2022 . 275th celebrations of Bahawalpur State will be held in Feb 2023 . 8 July 2022 . Associated Press of Pakistan.
3. Web site: Ahmad . Mashal . 2 August 2020 . Retracing Bahawalpur's glorious past . 2022-07-08 . . en.
4. https://www.dawn.com/news/204492/sadiq-khan-gallery-at-bahawalpur-museum