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:[1]
- 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]
