Lahore Museum
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The Lahore Museum (Punjabi: لہور میوزیم; Urdu: عجائب گھر لاہور; "Lahore Wonder House") is a museum located in Lahore, Pakistan. Founded in 1865 at a smaller location and opened in 1894[1] at its current location on The Mall in Lahore during the British colonial period, Lahore Museum is Pakistan's largest museum, as well as one of its most visited ones.[2][3][4]
عجائب گھر لاہور | |
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 Entrance to the museum | |
  Location within Lahore | |
Former name | Central Museum |
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| Established | 1865, moved to present site in 1894 |
| Location | The Mall, Lahore, Pakistan |
| Coordinates | 31.568226°N 74.308174°E |
| Type | Archaeology, art, heritage, modern history, religious |
| Collection size | 58,000 |
| Visitors | 227,994 (2018) |
| Director | No one |
| Curator | Naushaba Anjum |
| Public transit access | Civil Secretariat, Lahore Metrobus |
| Website | Official website |
The museum houses an extensive collection of Buddhist art from the ancient Indo-Greek and Gandhara kingdoms. It also has collections from the Mughal Empire, Sikh Empire and the British Empire in India.[5]
The Lahore Museum, along with the Zamzama Gun located directly in front of the building, is the setting of the opening scene in the novel Kim by Rudyard Kipling,[6][7] whose father, John Lockwood Kipling, was one of the museum's earliest curators.[8]