A pink stone palace by the Arabian Sea.
Karachi, Pakistan Founded 1999
The businessman Shivratan Mohatta built this summer palace in 1927 from pink Jodhpur stone and yellow Gizri stone, in the style of the palaces of Rajasthan. After independence it housed the Foreign Office, and later Fatima Jinnah lived here.
It opened as a museum of art and culture in 1999 and holds changing exhibitions on the arts, crafts and history of Pakistan, inside one of Karachi's most beautiful buildings.
Natural History
Fossils, minerals and wildlife of Pakistan.
Archaeology
The life of the Buddha, told in Gandhara stone.
Archaeology
Five thousand years of South Asia under one red-brick roof.
Archaeology
The town that gave a whole civilization its name.
Palaces & Homes
The house where the poet of the East spent his last years.
Archaeology
Where Alexander's Greeks met the monks of Gandhara.
History
The nation's story, from the Indus to independence.
Military
Arms, uniforms and battles from the Mughals to today.
Palaces & Homes
Akbar's citadel, Shah Jahan's Palace of Mirrors.
Palaces & Homes
The birthplace of Quaid-e-Azam in old Karachi.
Palaces & Homes
Jinnah's Karachi home, kept as he left it.
History
The road to 1947, beneath four granite petals.
Art
5,000 years of art on Fifth Avenue.
Art
One family's collection from the court of Hyderabad.
Art
A rain of light under a floating dome.
Art
Catherine the Great's collection in the Winter Palace.
Art
Treasures of the Chinese emperors, carried across the sea.
Art
A royal palace turned into the world's most visited museum.
Art
Michelangelo's ceiling and the art of the popes.
Art
Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age.
Art
1,400 years of Islamic art in I. M. Pei's desert fortress.