The life of the Buddha, told in Gandhara stone.
Peshawar, Pakistan Founded 1907
The museum began in 1907 in the Victoria Memorial Hall, a building that mixes British, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic styles. Peshawar was the capital of the Kushan king Kanishka, and the museum holds one of the largest collections of Gandhara art in the world.
Its relief panels tell the Buddha's life story scene by scene, from his birth to his death, and other galleries show the arms, crafts and clothing of the peoples of the frontier.
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The birthplace of Quaid-e-Azam in old Karachi.
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The road to 1947, beneath four granite petals.
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Climb aboard a submarine that made history in 1971.
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The house where the poet of the East spent his last years.
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The town that gave a whole civilization its name.
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Buddhist treasures from the valley of Udyana.
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The nation's story, from the Indus to independence.
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Fossils, minerals and wildlife of Pakistan.
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Pakistan's living crafts, music and costume in one place.
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Jinnah's Karachi home, kept as he left it.
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Where Alexander's Greeks met the monks of Gandhara.
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Nefertiti, rebuilt from the ruins of war.
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