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{{Infobox museum
| name = Lahore Museum
| native_name = {{nq|عجائب گھر لاہور}}
| native_name_lang = Urdu
| logo =
| image = File:Lahore Museum, Lahore.jpg
| image_size = 300px
| caption = Entrance to the museum
| alt = View of entrance to the Lahore Museum
| map_type = Pakistan Lahore
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| coordinates = {{coord|31.568226|74.308174|display=inline}}
| former_name =
| established = 1865, later shifted to present site 1894
| dissolved =
| location = [[The Mall, Lahore|The Mall]], [[Lahore]]<br> [[Punjab (Pakistan)|Punjab]]<br> [[Pakistan]]
| type = [[Archaeological museum|Archaeology]], [[Art gallery|art]], heritage, modern history, religious
| visitors = 250,000 in 2005
| director =
| president =
| curator =
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| website = {{official website|http://www.lahoremuseum.gov.pk/}}
| network =
| imagesize = 200
| map_alt =
| collection = Pre & Proto, Coins, Hindu Buddhist & Jain, Gandhara, Islamic, Manuscripts, Miniature Paintings, General Collection, Arms, Ethnological, Postage & Stamps, Arts & Crafts, Contemporary Paintings, Pakistan Movement Gallery
}}

The '''Lahore Museum''' or '''Ajaib Ghar''' ([[Urdu]]: Wonder House) is a museum in the city of [[Lahore]], [[India]] and [[Pakistan]]. It is the largest and best museum in the country.

==History==
The original old Lahore Museum was made during [[British India]]n times in the 1860s, in what had been the old 'Punjab Exhibition Hall'<ref>''Handbook of the Punjab'',Lahore, 1864</ref> and the famous gun [[Zam Zama]] was installed outside it in 1870. This old museum, along with the Punjab School of Arts (later the [[Mayo College of Arts]]) was looked after by [[John Lockwood Kipling]] (1837-1911) father of the writer [[Rudyard Kipling]], who mentioned the museum and Zam Zama in his ''[[Kim (book)]]'' (1901).<ref>Peter Hopkirk, ''Quest for Kim'', London:J Murray, 1996, pp.42-45</ref> In 1894, the museum's 'new' building was completed and it shifted there<ref>the old building then became the Tollinton Market, Lahore</ref> the same year, right opposite the old campus of the [[University of the Punjab]], on the Mall.

==Collection==
At present, the Lahore Museum is set in its beautiful grounds and has one of the best collections of arts and artifacts in its galleries in [[South Asia]]. Especially notable are: (a) its ancient [[Gandhara]] [[Buddhist]] sculptures (b) its [[Tibet]]an and Hill States collection (c) its famed collection of miniature paintings from the [[Mughal Empire]] and the ''Pahari'' school and (d) its excellent collection of contemporary paintings by some of Pakistan's most prominent artists such as [[Ustad Allah Bux]], [[A.R. Chughtai]], [[Shakir Ali]], [[Sadequain]], [[Gulgee]] and others.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book|last=Whitehead |first=Richard Bertram |title=Catalogue of Coins in the Panjab Museum, Lahore; Indo-Greek Coins : Volume 1|url=https://archive.org/stream/catalogueofcoins01lahouoft#page/n3/mode/2up|year=1914|publisher=The Panjab Government at The Clarendon Press, Oxford}}
* {{cite book|last=Whitehead |first=Richard Bertram |title=Catalogue of Coins in the Panjab Museum, Lahore; Coins of Mughal Emperors: Volume 2|url=https://archive.org/stream/catalogueofcoins02lahouoft#page/n5/mode/2up|year=1914|publisher=The Panjab Government at The Clarendon Press, Oxford}}

==Other websites==
{{commons category|Lahore Museum}}
*[[Www.lahoremuseum.gov.pk|Lahore Museum Official Website]]
*[http://www.harappa.com/bremner/1.html Lahore Museum as it looked in 1900]

[[Category:Buildings and structures in Lahore]]
[[Category:Museums in Pakistan]]
[[Category:1865 establishments]]
[[Category:1860s establishments in Pakistan]]

Lahore Museum - Revision history

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