Peshawar Museum

The Peshawar Museum is a museum located in Peshawar, capital of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The Peshawar Museum is striking for its accumulation of Buddhist work of art dating from the old Gandhara Empire. The Peshawar Museum was established in 1907 as "Victoria Hall", in memory of Queen Victoria. The two-story building was worked in a syncretic structural style comprising of British, Hindu, Buddhist and Mughal Islamic styles.The gallery at first had just a single show corridor, however two more were included 1969– 70.

In 2004– 05, the gallery was additionally extended with the development of another square with two displays, two corridors for the historical center's gathering away, workplaces for the common directorate of archaic exploration, a protection research facility and a cafeteria. The memorable presentation lobby was likewise revamped around then. The present accumulation has just about 14,000 things in light of Gandhara, Greco-Buddhist, Kushan, Parthian, and Indo-Scythian life.

Illustrations incorporate workmanship, figures, coins, compositions, statues, antiquated books, early forms of the Quran, weapons, dresses, adornments, Kalash likenesses, engravings, artworks of the Mughal and later periods, family unit materials and ceramics, and in addition nearby and Persian painstaking work.