museum is a place used for storing and displaying different objects,illustrating different cultures,natural history,art and craft.It aims to bringing before public mind new things discovered and new researches made.lahore museum is one of the great museums of pakistan.it is situated in the centre of the city, on the mall near anarkali.another part of this museum exhibiting anicent and modern armour is lodged in th lahore fort. the outward appearance of the muesum building presents a grand and magnificent sight as it is a massive and lofty. the lahore museum.the sorrounding parks and garderns also present a glorious spectacle.
when, we visited the lahore museum the man at the gate gave us a brass-token and we went inside.it looked as beautiful and grand inside as from outside. the internal beauty of the museum was rather enhanced by the materials which were elegantly arranged in the hall.there were antiquities antiquities both of foreign and native origin. The antiquities of native origin were numerous than the foreign relics.The thing that interested me most was the dress gallery .There were a displayed a vareity of people in their local dresses.There were also shown the dress of primitive inhabitants.Tribal pathans with their long thick dress and robust constitution were also there.There dress displayed their warlike habits and their stern looks showed their high sense of honour and dignity.Besides,there were specimen of various clans.then,there were the dresses of the english people who had ruled over india in the 18th century.
The next thing that arrested my attention was the display of arms.both anicent and modern.There were many types of bows,arrows,armours,sheilds,guns,cannons,helmets,pistols,revolversclubs abd many other kinds of ancient and modern offensive weapons. Standing before them i could well study the ancient and modern modes of warfare. It also reminded of the influence each new invention in the modes of warfare had wielded on the politics of the country of origin. close to these were arranged musical instruments bearing strange and uncommon names. they gave an account of the glories of classical music and the heights of excellence it had attained in the days of yores.
arts and crafts gallery was also very interesting.there were drawing and painting of all times and of all ages hanging side by side. in a single gallery one could see the best models of different style paintings.
of these the moughal miniatures and portraits had the greatest fascination for me. the modern school of painting was also represented. the oil colur and water colour paintings of some of the great masters, gave me a very good treat. sometimes i was lost in admiration for the exquisite beauty that the artist had represented in these paintings. in a well-illuminated corner there were speciemen of carpets,pottery,embroidery,needlework,engineering appliances,photographs, prepared by various artists. the agricultural products of different places were also arranged there.
Museum have an importantance of their own,specially in a country like pakistan. here the best tradition of our past stand shoulder to shoulder modern productions of arts and industry. with one careful glance we are able to find the aesthetic contiunity through distances in time and space.thus, by just visiting a good museum we learnt what cannot be learnt from whole liberary of books.here we see life,not in frangment,but in totality.
