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The Peshawar Museum is a wonderful
places full of a vertiable treasures of art, sculpture
and historic relics. It was founded in 1907. Its red
bricks building consist of spacious hall, for side
galleries two on the ground and two on upper story.
The main hall and three galleries are reserved for
exhibition of Ghundjara Sculptures, terracotta
figurines, lithic inscriptions, toilet, trays,
household objects etc. we can see the colossal
standing Buddha and a large number of Buddha heads in
various sizes both in stone and stucco are on display
here.
 
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.
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