Heritage record
Peshawar Museum
Khyber PakhtunkhwaMuseumProtected
Peshawar Museum is one of the most popular museums in Southeast Asia, especially the Buddhist relics from the Ghandhara era. The building of the Museum was established to commemorate Queen Victoria 1906-07. After the building was completed, the museum was created in November 1907 to store sculptures of Ghandhara. The main collections of the Peshawar Museum include statues of Ghandhara, coins, documents and copies of the Holy Quran, imprints, weapons, clothing, jewellery, conflict models, paintings from the Mughal era and beyond, household items, and local and Persian Hands Crafts.
Photographs: Department of Archaeology & Museums national inventory record, displayed from the official source (doam.gov.pk). Not PWHI photography.
- Record ID
- 4549
- Province / territory
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- District
- Peshawar
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Museum
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 34.00790, 71.55800 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Dani, Ahmed Hassan. (1995). Peshawar: Historic City of the Frontier. Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore.
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