National
Art Gallery
House # 77, Street # 48, F-7/4
Telephone: 9204951
The contemporary Pakistani art is on permanent display in this art
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Children
Art Palace
House # 77, School Road, F-7/4
Telephone: 2221286
Regular art classes
for children are held here. The children art is also on display in
this art palace.
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Rohtas
Art Gallery
House # 4-B, Street # 62, F-7/4 |
Hunerkada
House # 17, Street # 83, G-6/4 |
Pakistan
Museum of Natural History
The Museum of Natural History is located on Garden Avenue in
National Park area. The Museum depicts early human history,
geology and wildlife of Pakistan. The exhibits are of particular
interest to students and children.
Timings: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. except Friday
Telephone: 9219909 |
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Islamabad
Museum
Pakistan has been a seat of the world's leading civilizations from
the time immemorial. There is plenty of evidence to support this
argument now on display in Islamabad Museum. For example,
20 million years old fossil remains, 2 million years old man-made
stone tools, 7000 years old early human settlements which lead to
the world famous Indus civilization, Gandhara Grave Culture and
Gandhara art, early Islamic settlements, Sultanate and Mughal
period, their art and craft.
Museum is located on
Garden Avenue.
Timings: 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday to Tuesday
Telephone: 9223826
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Lok
Virsa Museum & Heritage Library
The Lok Virsa (National Institute of Folk & Traditional
Heritage) works towards preserving the living folk and traditional
culture of Pakistan. Its Folk Heritage Museum, located near
Shakarparian Hills, has a large display of embroidered costumes,
jewellery, woodwork, metalwork, block printing, ivory and bone
work.Traditional architecture facades exhibiting such skills as
fresco, mirror work, marble inlay, tile mosaic and stucco tracery
are also displayed.
Lok Virsa Heritage Reference Library is equiped with resource data
on ethnography, anthropology, folk music, art, history and crafts.
Books on culture, heritage, audio and video cassettes of folk and
classical vocal and instrumental music are available for sale at
Lok Virsa's sales centre.
Timings: 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. execpt Friday
Telephone: 9201651, 9203983
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