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This is a list of museums, galleries, and related building structures in Pakistan.


Museums and galleries


Archaeological and historical museums

* Harappa Museum,
Harappa Harappa (; Urdu/ pnb, ) is an archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, about west of Sahiwal. The Bronze Age Harappan civilisation, now more often called the Indus Valley Civilisation, is named after the site, which takes its name from a mode ...
* Bahawalpur Museum,
Bahawalpur Bahawalpur () is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. With inhabitants as of 2017, it is Pakistan's 11th most populous city. Founded in 1748, Bahawalpur was the capital of the former princely state of Bahawalpur, ruled by the Abbasi f ...
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Bannu Museum Bannu Museum is a museum located in Bannu District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The museum was established by the Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and inaugurated in 2011 by Sayed Aqil Shah, Minister for Sports, Touris ...
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Bannu Bannu ( ps, بنو, translit=banū ; ur, , translit=bannū̃, ) is a city located on the Kurram River in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is the capital of Bannu Division. Bannu's residents are primarily members of the Banuchi trib ...
* Chitral Museum *
City Museum, Gorkhatri City Museum is an archaeology museum located on the archaeological site of Gorkhatri, Peshawar in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The museum was inaugurated on 23 March 2006 by Akram Khan Durrani, the then Chief Minister of Khyber Pa ...
, Peshawar * Dir Museum,
Chakdara Chakdara (چکدرہ) is a city in Lower Dir District. It's the 2nd largest city after Timergara. It serves as the educational center of Malakand Division and the Gateway of Lower Dir District . It is located north of Malakand near the confluen ...
* Hund Museum,
Swabi Swabi ( ps, صوابۍ; ur, ) is a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan,Kasur Museum,
Kasur Kasur (Urdu and pa, ; also romanized as Qasūr; from pluralized Arabic word ''Qasr'' meaning "palaces" or "forts") is a city to south of Lahore, in the Pakistani province of Punjab. The city serves as the headquarters of Kasur District. Kasur ...
* Kalasha Dur Museum,
Chitral Chitral ( khw, , lit=field, translit=ćhitrār; ur, , translit=ćitrāl) is situated on the Chitral River in northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It serves as the capital of the Chitral District and before that as the capital of Chitral ...
* Lahore Museum, Lahore *
Lok Virsa Museum Heritage Museum ( ur, ), also known as Lok Virsa Museum is a museum administered and managed by Lok Virsa - National Institute of Folk & Traditional Heritage. It is a museum of history and culture in Islamabad, Pakistan, located on the Shakarpa ...
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Lyallpur Museum Lyallpur Museum is a heritage museum in Faisalabad, Pakistan ( the old and original name for the city of Faisalabad is Lyallpur). It has 10 galleries which show the ancient and modern history and culture of Lyallpur/Faisalabad. It was established i ...
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Faisalabad Faisalabad (; Punjabi/ ur, , ; ), formerly known as Lyallpur ( Punjabi, Urdu: لائل پور), named after the founder of the city, but was renamed in 1977 in honour of late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. It is the 3rd largest city of Pak ...
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Mardan Museum Mardan Museum is located in the Mardan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The museum was first established in 1991 in a Town Hall with a single hall with 22 show cases displaying more than 90 Gandhara's sculptures by the supervision of Sahib ...
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Multan Museum The Multan Museum ( ur, ملتان متحف ) is located in the city of Multan and the Multan District, in Punjab Province of eastern Pakistan. Collections The Multan Museum contains a fine collection of coins, medals, postage stamps of the ...
, Multan * National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi * National Museum of Science and Technology, Lahore * National History Museum,
Greater Iqbal Park Greater Iqbal Park ( ur, ), formerly Minto Park, is an urban park located in the outskirts of the Walled City in Lahore, Pakistan. Before current renovations and expansion, its name was Iqbal Park. Noted as the home of Minar-e-Pakistan'','' ...
, Lahore * PAF Museum, Karachi * Pakistan Maritime Museum, Karachi * Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Islamabad *
Peshawar Museum The Peshawar Museum ( ur, پشاور میوزیم ''(colloquial)''; پشاور عجائب گھر ''(official)'') is a museum located in Peshawar, capital of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The Peshawar Museum is notable for its colle ...
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Pushkalavati Museum Pushkalavati Museum also known as Charsadda Museum established in 2006, located in Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. History Pushkalavati was the first capital of Gandhara from 6th to 1st century BC and the former name of Charsadda Distr ...
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Charsadda Chārsadda ( ps, چارسده; ; ur, ; ) is a town and headquarters of Charsadda District, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
* Rohtas Fort Museum, Jhelum *
Archaeological Museum Banbhore Archaeological Museum Banbhore or Banbhore Museum is an archaeological museum located in Banbhore, Sindh, Pakistan. The museum was established by the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Pakistan, on 21 August 1960. The museum was ...
* Archaeological Museum Umerkot * Sindh Museum,
Hyderabad Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. ...
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Jamshoro Jamshoro ( sd, ڄام شورو, ur, ) is a city and the capital of Jamshoro District, located in Sindh, Pakistan. It is located on the right bank of the Indus River, approximately northwest of Hyderabad and northeast from the provincial capi ...
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Swat Museum Swat Museum is a museum located in Mingora, on the Mingora and Saidu road in Swat District, province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. History The museum was conceived in 1959 under the aegis of the Italian Archaeological Mission to Swat and th ...
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Mingora Mingora ( ps, مینګورہ, ur, ) is a city in the Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Located on the Swat River, it is the 3rd largest city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the 26th largest in Pakistan. Mingora is the largest city and t ...
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Taxila Museum Taxila Museum ( ur, ) is located at Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan. The museum is home to a significant and comprehensive collection of Gandharan art dating from the 1st to the 7th centuries CE. Most objects in the collection were excavated from th ...
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Taxila Taxila or Takshashila (; sa, तक्षशिला; pi, ; , ; , ) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan. Located in the Taxila Tehsil of Rawalpindi District, it lies approximately northwest of the Islamabad–Rawalpindi metropolitan area a ...
* Wazir Mansion, Karachi * National History Museum, Lahore * Abbott Museum,
Abbottabad Abbottabad (; Urdu, Punjabi language(HINDKO dialect) آباد, translit=aibṭabād, ) is the capital city of Abbottabad District in the Hazara region of eastern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is the 40th largest city in Pakistan and four ...
* Umar Hayat Mahal Museum,
Chiniot Chiniot (Urdu and pa, ) is a city and the administrative headquarter of Chiniot District in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. Located on the bank of the river Chenab, it is the 28th largest city of Pakistan. It is also known for its intrica ...
* Badshahi mosque Museum, Lahore * Gujrat Museum, Gujrat * Lahore fort Museum, Lahore * Mohanjodaro Museum,
Larkana Larkana ( ur, , translit=lāṛkāna; sd, لاڙڪاڻو, translit=lāṛkāṇo) is a city located in the Sindh province of Pakistan. It is the 15th largest city of Pakistan by population. It is home to the Indus Valley civilization site Moh ...
* Thatta Museum, Sindh * Montgomery Museum, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Sahiwal * Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum Museum, University of Peshawar, Peshawar


Archives

* Sindh Archives Karachi * National Archives of Pakistan, Islamabad * Supreme Court of Pakistan Archives, Islamabad


Art galleries

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Abasin Arts Council Abasin Arts Council (formerly Abasin Arts Society) is an art gallery and exhibition centre in Peshawar, Pakistan. Council is located behind the Peshawar Museum. History Abasin Arts Society was established in October 1955 by the Commissioner of ...
, Peshawar * Alhamra Arts Council, Lahore * Faisalabad Arts Council, Faisalabad *
Fakir Khana Fakir Khana ( ur, ) is a private museum and house located in Lahore, Pakistan, owned by the Fakir family. Fakhir Khana contains over 20,000 objects, and is the largest privately owned museum in South Asia. Location The museum is located within La ...
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Mohatta Palace The Mohatta Palace ( ur, ) is a museum located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Designed by ''Muhammad komail Hussain'', the palace was built in 1927 in the posh seaside locale of Clifton as the summer home of Shivratan Mohatta, a Hindu Marwari bus ...
, Karachi * Multan Arts Council, Multan * National Art Gallery, Islamabad *
Pakistan Arts Council The Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi is a council for the promotion of arts and culture in Pakistan, and one of the busiest in terms of organizing events. It is the country's oldest NGO (non-government organization) for the promotion and dev ...
, Karachi * Rawalpindi Arts Council, Rawalpindi * Vogue Art Gallery, Lahore * Oyster Art Gallery, Lahore * Anarkali tomb Museum, Lahore * Gujranwala Arts Council, Gujranwala * Chwkandi Art Gallery Karachi


Biographical museums

* Javed Manzil (Allama Iqbal Museum), Lahore *
Iqbal Manzil Iqbal Manzil (; "Manzil"; word in Urdu meaning 'building' or 'mansion') is the birthplace of Muslim poet and philosopher Dr Muhammad Allama Iqbal (1877-1938). It is located in the heart of the city of Sialkot in Punjab province of Pakistan. Hi ...
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Sialkot Sialkot ( ur, ) is a city located in Punjab, Pakistan. It is the capital of Sialkot District and the 13th most populous city in Pakistan. The boundaries of Sialkot are joined with Jammu (the winter capital of Indian administered Jammu and K ...
* Wazir Mansion, Karachi *
Mazar-e-Quaid Mazar-e-Quaid ( ur, , lit=Mausoleum of the Leader) is the resting place of Muhammad Ali Jinnah situated in Karachi, Sindh. The marble monument comprises a surface area of . It is surrounded by formal gardens and designed in an Islamic modernist ...
Museum, Karachi * Quaid-e-Azam House Museum (Flag Staff House), Karachi


Heritage museums

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Lok Virsa Museum Heritage Museum ( ur, ), also known as Lok Virsa Museum is a museum administered and managed by Lok Virsa - National Institute of Folk & Traditional Heritage. It is a museum of history and culture in Islamabad, Pakistan, located on the Shakarpa ...
, Islamabad * Shakir Ali Museum, Lahore * Chughtai Museum, Lahore


Judicial museums

* Lahore High Court Museum * Supreme Court Museum, Islamabad


Military museums

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PAF Museum, Karachi Pakistan Air Force Museum Faisal ( ur, ) is an Air Force museum and park situated near ''Karsaz Flyover'' on Shahrah-e-Faisal in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.Pakistan Army Museum, Lahore * Pakistan Army Museum, Rawalpindi * Pakistan Maritime Museum, Karachi * Sindh Police Museum, Karachi * Punjab police Museum, Lahore


Money museums

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State Bank of Pakistan Museum & Art Gallery State Bank of Pakistan Museum & Art Gallery is a museum on Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar Road in Karachi, established in 2004 to introduce the first Monetary Museum of Pakistan. The current State Bank of Pakistan Museum & Art Gallery building, previ ...
, Karachi


Natural history museums

* Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Islamabad * Quetta Geological Museum, Quetta * Natural History Museum, Karachi Zoo, Karachi


Science and technology museums

* MagnifiScience Centre, Karachi * National Museum of Science and Technology, Lahore


Transport museums

* Pakistan Railways Heritage Museum, near Islamabad


See also

* List of libraries in Pakistan


External links


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