Lahore Museum (Punjabi: لاہور میوزیم, Urdu: لاہور عجائب گھر), established in 1894, is located in The Mall, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Rudyard Kipling's father, John Lockwood Kipling, was one of the famous curators of the museum. Over 250,000 admissions were registered in 2005.[1]
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The museum is set in a Mughal-Gothic styled building, reflecting on the architectural heritage and modern history of Lahore. The building was designed and built by Sir Ganga Ram, one of the leading architects of that time.[2][3]
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The Museum contains some fine specimens of Mughal and Sikh door-ways and wood-work and contains a large collection of paintings dating back to the Mughal, Sikh and British eras. The Museum has a collection of musical instruments, ancient jewellery, textiles, pottery, and armory. There are relics from the Graeco-Bactrian times as well as well as some Tibetan and Nepalese work. The museum has a number of objects of Greco-Buddhist sculptures, Mughal and Pahari paintings on display. The Fasting Buddha is one of the unique collections of the museum — in 2004 Nobuaki Tanaka, the Japanese ambassador, agreed to provide technical know how as the Buddha is popular with Japanese tourists.[4]
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The Museum contains particularly extensive collections of Hellenistic and Mughal coins.[5] The collection consists of two parts, the Government collection, and the private collection of the nineteenth century numismatist Mr CJ Rodgers. This and the Bleazby collection were purchased by the Panjab government for the Museum.
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