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| Lahore Museum Virtual Tour (No Limit Creativity, business consultants, NLC360.com) |
The
Lahore Museum (
لاہور میوزیم لاہور عجائب گھر) was originally established in 1865-66 on the site of the hall of the 1864
Punjab Exhibition (
Government of Pakistan).
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| Maitreya, 5th cent. BCE (MOW) |
It was shifted in 1894 to its present site on
The Mall in Lahore, in the Punjab region of India (which 1947's Partition became the country of Pakistan due to upheavals created by British colonial rule).
Rudyard Kipling's father,
John Lockwood Kipling, was one of the earliest and most famous curators of the museum. Over 250,000 visitors were registered in 2005. The current building complex that houses the Lahore Museum was designed by the well-known architect Sir
Ganga Ram.
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| Gandhara Buddhist art (WQ) |
The Museum is the biggest museum in the new country and full of exquisite Gandhara (Greco-Indian fusion) art. Many rooms have been under repair for a long time, and others still show a rather old-fashioned and often rudimentary display of objects, with captions only in Urdu (the local language).
There are important relics from the
Indus Valley Civilization (
Indus River Valley),
Ghandara and
Greco-Bactrian periods as well as some Tibetan and Nepalese work on display. The museum has a number of
Greco-Buddhist sculptures,
Mughal and
Pahari paintings on display. The Fasting Buddha from the
Ghandara period is one of the most famous objects of the museum.
MoreWhat was Gandhāra?Gandhāra (Sanskrit
गन्धार, Pashto
ګندارا, Urdu
گندھارا) was an ancient kingdom in the
Swat and
Kabul river valleys and the
Pothohar Plateau [that border modern Iran in the southwest in the province of
Seistan-Balochistan west of ancient
Mohenjo-daro].
These are in the modern-day states of northern Pakistan and northeastern Afghanistan
(
Gandhara Civilization). Its main cities were
Purushapura (modern
Peshawar), literally meaning "City of Men" (
Encyclopædia Britannica: Gandhara) and
Takshashila (modern
Taxila).
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| First images of the Buddha, Gandhara, Lahore Museum, Pakistan (Bijapuri Ed Sentner/flickr) |
Gandhāra (Sanskrit गन्धार, Pashto ګندارا, Urdu گندھارا) was an ancient kingdom in the Swat and Kabul river valleys and the Pothohar Plateau [that border modern Iran in the southwest in the province of Seistan-Balochistan west of ancient Mohenjo-daro].
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