Peshawar Museum in Mansehra

Great experience, rich history, one of the best museums of Pakistan .

Peshawar museum had some fascinating artifacts. The two downsides were that the back history of each artifact wasnt explained. It told you what it was but not how they were acquired. The second point was there was no restaurant and the washrooms were horrifically disgustingly dirty.

Third class museum, visited in summer and there were no Air conditioning or ventilation, it was boiling hot inside

It is one of the richest museums I have ever visited and I am a woman who have been to many museums. The guide was providing information to people who couldnt read. The museum staff was polite and respectful.

My Son enjoyed alot as he loved History.

5000 years old history

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A well maintained historical place, be aware that if there is some Army visit in it, you will not be allowed to enter.We have waited for and 2 hour to visit this place.

Nice place to recollect history. 👍

An elegant respectful place. All Buddhists should come and see.

The best museum in the world for Gandhara collection. So many priceless sculpture which will link the past to the future. Must visit here again.

Peshawar musem has one of the largest and most extension collections of Ghandhara art of the Buddhist period and is considered to be one of the biggest collections of Buddhist objects in the world.

Very nice museum with a complete collection with archeologic stuff, weapons and islamic gallery

Very well displayed aretfacts from the gandhara civilization.

Peshawar Museum is located capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Peshawar, it is a very old beautiful building that is restored in its original form and with collection of Gandhari civilization and some historical pictures related to Pakistan Movement and later period. it has good collection of vintage guns and some more cultural artifacts.

You can see Ghandharas treasures. Now closed for renovation noitce on main gate.

The Peshawar Museum (Urdu: پشاور میوزیم(colloquial); پشاور عجائب گھر (official)is a museum located in Peshawar, capital of Pakistans Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The Peshawar Museum is notable for its collection of Buddhist artwork dating from the ancient Gandhara region

The Peshawar Museum is located in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.The Peshawar Museum was founded in 1907 as "Victoria Hall," in memory of Queen Victoria. The 2 story building was built in a syncretic architectural style consisting of British, Hindu, Buddhist and Mughal Islamic styles.The museum initially had only one exhibition hall, but 2 more were added in 1969–70. In 2004–05.The museum was further expanded with the construction of a new block with two galleries, two halls for the museums collection in storage, offices for the provincial directorate of archaeology, a conservation laboratory and a cafeteria. The historic exhibition hall was also renovated at that time.The current collection has almost 14,000 items based on Gandhara, Greco-Buddhist, Kushan, Parthian, and Indo-Scythian life. Examples include art, sculptures, coins, manuscripts, statues, ancient books, early versions of the Quran, weapons, dresses, jewelry, Kalash effigies, inscriptions, paintings of the Mughal and later periods, household materials and pottery, as well as local and Persian handicrafts.It has 8,625 coins, 4,510 of which are pre-Islamic. The main interest of the museums numismatic collection is that the coins were recovered from archaeological sites, including: Shah-Ji-Ki-Dheri, Shari Bahlol, Takht-i-Bahi and Jamal Garhi. The collections of Bactrian Greek, Indo-Greek, Indo-Scythian, Indo-Parthian and Kushan coins have been published.This gallery exhibits wooden facades of mosques, ancient Arabic and Persian inscriptions, fine Multani tiles and ceramics, and the dresses and weapons of Syed Ahmad Shaheed Barailvi and numerous ancient leaders. Some of the best works are the Mughal Islamic metal artifacts in bronze and silver, the calligraphic specimens and scrolls that date as far back as 1224.

Staff was very much cooperative and nice....overall nice and attractive place... Loved it

Peshawar Museum; the most important and largest collection of Gandhara Art in the world, and is one of the most popular museums in south Asia. Historic building of Peshawar Museum being restored to its original form byKP Archaeology, removing later additions and using original material and conservation techniques..A lot of potential for religious tourism (Latif Ur Rehman, AD Information KP Tourism Department)

Peshawar Museum is one of the largest displays Buddhist Art And Antiquities.Victoria Hall~ Peshawar Museum.

Peshawar is Rich of history, in museum you can see alot of historical data. I will highly recommended to visit PESHAWAR museum.

Enjoyed very much..Great place for history enthusiasts,clean and green!

Well maintained and historical place. Staff is courteous. Parking available. Ticket charges are very nominal but taking photographs is charged at 300 rupees.There are no public toilets. The ones available are not cleaned / maintained since partition.

The Peshawar Museum (Urdu: پشاور میوزیم‎(colloquial); پشاور عجائب گھر (official)is a museum located in Peshawar, capital of Pakistans Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The Peshawar Museum is notable for its collection of Buddhist artwork dating from the ancient Gandhara region.

Peshawar Museum is housed in a beautiful old building.Entry fee is nominal 5/10 rupees but if you want to take pictures inside Museum, you will need to pay 300 Pkr.They have good collection of Gandhara civilization statues and artifects.All the ground floor is dedicated to Gandhara Art.First floor has some historical pictures related to Pakistan Movement and later period. A good collection of vintage guns and some more cultural artifects.Museum is seriously lacks diversification.In one room there was posters of Iran, commercial posters, not work of art.Govt and private sponsors must donate objects and other museums may lend their archives on rotation basis to this Museum so that it can attract people of all ages and interests.

It’s under renovation by Archaeological Department of kpk built in 1907 it was in dire need of maintenanceThanks to Department of Archaeology work already started on itPeshawar museum is one of largest on Display of Buddhist Art and antiques

Great experience. The Buddhas archive is argubely the best part of the museum. Federal and provincial govt must put more emphasis on promoting this site.

The Peshawar Museum is a museum located in Peshawar, capital of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The Peshawar Museum is notable for its collection of Buddhist artwork dating from the ancient Gandhara Empire

All in one ..My one of the favourite museum ...You must visit it if you come at Pekhawar

Peshawar Museum built in 1907, is one of the oldest museums of Pakistan. Embracing glorious sculptures of Buddha, collection of Mughal-era calligraphy & beautiful artifacts from the Gandhara Empire, the museum holds great significance.For Guided tour Contact us Tour Da pekhawar +923339866655

Best experience. You can learn alot of things about buddhism and can see many buddha statues , beautiful painting portraits and beautiful written holy book Quran from1100 AD.

The Peshawar Museum (Urdu: پشاور میوزیم‎(colloquial); پشاور عجائب گھر (official)is a museum located in Peshawar, capital of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The Peshawar Museum is notable for its collection of Buddhist artwork dating from the ancient Gandhara Empire.

The Peshawar Museum was founded in 1907 as "Victoria Hall," in memory of Queen Victoria. The two-story building was built in a syncretic architectural style consisting of British, Hindu, Buddhist and Mughal Islamic styles.The museum initially had only one exhibition hall, but two more were added in 1969–70. In 2004–05, the museum was further expanded with the construction of a new block with two galleries, two halls for the museums collection in storage, offices for the provincial directorate of archaeology, a conservation laboratory and a cafeteria. The historic exhibition hall was also renovated at that time.

Well maintained museum......The Peshawar Museum is a museum located in Peshawar, capital of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The Peshawar Museum is notable for its collection of Buddhist artwork dating from the ancient Gandhara Empire.

The Peshawar Museum (Urdu: پشاور میوزیم‎(colloquial); پشاور عجائب گھر (official)is a museum located in Peshawar, capital of Pakistan’s Khyber pakhtunkhwa province. The Peshawar Museum is notable for its collection of Buddhist artwork dating from the ancient Ghandhara Empire.The Peshawar Museum was founded in 1907 as "Victoria Hall," in memory of Queen Victoria. The two-story building was built in a syncretic architectural style consisting of British, Hindu, Buddhist and Mughal Islamic styles.The museum initially had only one exhibition hall, but two more were added in 1969–70. In 2004–05, the museum was further expanded with the construction of a new block with two galleries, two halls for the museums collection in storage, offices for the provincial directorate of archaeology, a conservation laboratory and a cafeteria. The historic exhibition hall was also renovated at that time.The current collection has almost 14,000 items based on Gandhara, Greco-Buddhist, Kushan, Parthian, and Indo-Scythian life. Examples include art, sculptures, coins, manuscripts, statues, ancient books, early versions of the Quran, weapons, dresses, jewelry, Kalash effigies, inscriptions, paintings of the Mughal and later periods, household materials and pottery, as well as local and Persian handicrafts.Gandhara and Greco-Buddhist Art EditPeshawar Museum has one of the largest and most extensive collections of Gandhara art of the Buddhist period and is considered to be one of the biggest collections of Buddhist objects in the world. The museum also contains the largest collection on Gautama Buddha. Buddhist stone sculptures, terracotta figurines, and other Buddhist objects. The display of Gandhara art in the main hall includes Buddhas life stories, miracles, worship of symbols, relic caskets, and individual standing Buddha sculptures. The ethnological objects of that period are also exhibited in the museum.Numismatics EditThe Peshawar Museum has 8,625 coins, 4,510 of which are pre-Islamic. The main interest of the museums numismatic collection is that the coins were recovered from archaeological sites, including: Shah-Ji-Ki-Dheri, Shari Bahlol, Takht-i-Bahi and Jamal Garhi. The collections of Bactrian Greek, Indo-Greek, Indo-Scythian, Indo-Parthian and Kushan coins have been published.Mughal and Persian Islamic Art EditThis gallery exhibits wooden facades of mosques, ancient Arabic and Persian inscriptions, fine Multani tiles and ceramics, and the dresses and weapons of Syed Ahmad Shaheed Barailvi and numerous ancient leaders. Some of the best works are the Mughal Islamic metal artifacts in bronze and silver, the calligraphic specimens and scrolls that date as far back as 1224.Middle Age and British Rule to Present EditThis gallery mainly consists of items displaying the culture and life of the major tribes of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and the Kalasha Desh located in the far north of the province, where a small tribe of animists called the Kalash live. The museum exhibits cultural items of the Kailash Valley. Exhibits also include swords, daggers, spears, long bows, recurve bows, arrows, shields, muzzle-loading guns, revolvers, pistols and gunpowder boxes.

Worth visiting place in Peshawar. The ground floor is full of statues of Gotham Budh and upper floor present cultural items of Mughal empire, indo-pak history and a nice collection of old hand written Islamic books. Entrance ticket costs pkr 10 only

A beautiful museum in peshawar. Must visit this place if you visit peahawar

Peshawar museum is a nice place to visit, there is every detail of history related to Islam, mohenjodarho and Peshawar remains. The building is also fine to visit. Huge and beautiful rooms for every section

Such a stunning view from out side of Peshawar museum and wondered to saw In the arms section are displayed old swords, spikes, daggers, helmets, bows and arrows and other weapons of war in old times. There is a model of a battle scene in a glass case another section has a large number of paintings. These are paintings of court scenes, fights of wild animals and dances. The paintings of the Mughal period are the wonderful specimens of art and old scripts written on stones, just amazing

Excellent well managed and organised place must go..nice app to guide abd brief

Its really impressive place to visit. It contains larger corner on Budhism also Hinduism and preserves of Syed Ahmed Shaheed Barelvi.

it was a good experienceLearn alot and was an informative tripRecently renovated the historical museum with beautiful lawns and sovereign shop.Best place for photography, learn heritageThe museum is notable for its collection of budhist artwork dating from the ancient gandhara empire

The Peshawar Museum  is a museum located in Peshawar, capital of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The Peshawar Museum is notable for its collection of Buddhist artwork dating from the ancient Gandhara Empire. The Peshawar Museum is noted for its collection of ancient Gandharan art.The Peshawar Museum was founded in 1907 as "Victoria Hall," in memory of Queen Victoria. The two-story building was built in a syncretic architectural style consisting of British, Hindu, Buddhist and Mughal Islamic styles.The museum initially had only one exhibition hall, but two more were added in 1969–70. In 2004–05, the museum was further expanded with the construction of a new block with two galleries, two halls for the museums collection in storage, offices for the provincial directorate of archaeology, a conservation laboratory and a cafeteria. The historic exhibition hall was also renovated at that time.

They have many stone statues and in particular boast a full collection of the Buddhas life in stone statues. They also have a rare statue of the emaciated Buddha. In addition they have various stone inscriptions, manuscripts, and cultural items from Pakistans northern cultures

The Peshawar Museum is renowned for its collection of Gandharan Art. The Peshawar Museum was founded in 1907 in memory of Queen Victoria. The two-story building features an amalgamation of British, South Asian, Hindu, Buddhist and Mughal Islamic architectural styles. Originally, there was only one main hall. Two halls were added in 1969-70. In 2004-05, an additional block was completed with two galleries, two halls for the reserve collection, offices for the provincial directorate of archaeology, a conservation laboratory and a cafeteria. The original building was renovated during that timeThe present main hall was built in 1906-07 in the memory of Queen Victoria at the cost of Rs. 60000, out of which Rs. 45000 were donated by the public of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa and Rs.15000 by the Director General of Archaeology, India.After completion of the building, the museum was set up in November 1907 to house the Gandharan Sculptures excavated from the major Gandharan sites of Shah-Ji-Ki-Dheri Peshawar, Sahri Bahlol, Takht-i-Bahi in the Mardan District and later from Jamal Garhi and other Gandharan sites excavated by British scholars. The two storey building, an amalgamation of the British and Mughal architectures, originally consisted of a main hall and two side aisles on the ground and first floor, surmounted by four elegant cupolas and small pinnacles on all the corners. On Ihe eastern and western side of the building, two halls were added in similar fashion in 1969-70 (one on each side). In 1974-75, The second storey was added to these side halls .The other sections of museum covered the era of Muslims and Tribal. The prize possession of the museum is however, the Kanishka casket recovered from Shah-ji-Dheri on the outskirts of Peshawar during the archeological excavations conducted in 1908-9. The inscribed casket in Kharosti contained three fragments of bone of the Buddha, which were given by the British Government to the Buddhist Society of Burma, which re-shrined them at Madalay. This famous casket is on display in this museum.There are some engraved gems, pottery, ivory shells and metal objects. Electrotypes of the early coins of the northwest frontier and lithic inscriptions in Kharoshti, sardar garhi.The coins collection of Peshawar Museum, 8625 items in all (stores and display excluding the newly excavated), includes Punch marked coins, and coins from the Indus Greeks, Scytho-Parthians, Kushans, White Huns, and Hindu Shahis.Also included are Islamic coins of the Ghaznavids, Ghaurids, Slave Dynasties, Tughlaqs, Lodhis, Mughals, Durranis, Sikh and British periods. The coins are in Gold, Silver, Copper and Billon. These coins are found in round, square and rectangular

its very good place particularly there is lot of thing related Buddhism., we can see different statues that depict the life of Buddha and there is also coin related info green period and Greeks statue.

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Probably the best displayed Gandhara period statues and busts. It is nowhere publicly displayed but photography isnt allowed unless you purchase a separate ticket/permission slip for 300 rupees.

Peshawar Museum was full of culture.I like the portraits of George 5 the most.Statues from Kalaish you unique which I saw first time. I couldnt visit ground floor because of construction.Staff was very decent and hospitable.Building of the museum was also master piece of architecture.Must visit!