Students visit Peshawar Museum

World Museum Day

PESHAWAR: The students of the Peshawar Public School and College on Wednesday visited the historic Peshawar Museum to mark the World Museum Day.

They attended a lecture delivered by Nawazuddin, the curator of the Peshawar Museum. Students were shown various galleries where they took keen interest in jewellery, musical instruments, dresses, utensils and weapons of the ancient times.  Students also got wonderstruck to see life-size statue of Buddha and his entire life story in stonework.

The curator informed the group of students that Peshawar Museum was built in 1906 in the hall founded in the memory of Queen Victoria during British era. He said that there are 30 museums in Pakistan and seven of them in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

There are 14156 items in Peshawar Museum that include Gandhara sculptures, coins, manuscripts and copies of the Holy Quran, inscriptions, weapons, dresses, jewellery, Kalash effigies, Mughal-era and later period paintings, household objects, local and Persian handicrafts. The collection is divided into five main sections: - Gandhara, Coins, Islamic, ethnological and Iranian.