Bahawalpur Museum

Urdu: بہاولپور عجائب گھر
Entrance to the museum
Established	1976; 48 years ago (1976)
Location	Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
Coordinates	29°23′24″N 71°41′08″E / 29.389988238891625°N 71.6855643739531°E / 29.389988238891625; 71.6855643739531
Type	Archaeology, art, heritage, modern history, religious
Visitors	28,000[1]
Director	Muhammad Zubair Rabbani

The Bahawalpur Museum (Urdu: بہاولپور عجائب گھر), established in 1976, is a museum of archaeology, art, heritage, modern history and religion located in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan.^[1] It comes under the control of Bahawalpur district government.

As of July 2022, the director of the museum is Muhammad Zubair Rabbani.^[2]

The museum as eight galleries, which include:^[1]

• Pakistan Movement gallery, consisting of a collection of photographs related to the Movement, including those of its leaders.
• Archaeological gallery, which represents the archaeological history of the region.
• Islamic gallery, which exhibits arms, paintings, textile specimen, and metal work related to the history of Islam.
• Regional cultural gallery, containing specimens of everyday objects used by people in the Cholistan Desert and the Bahawalnagar, Bahawalpur, and Rahim Yar Khan districts.
• Coin gallery, consisting of more than 300 coins
• Quran gallery, containing manuscripts, inscriptions and Quranic documents.
• Bahawalpur gallery, showing photographs and articles related to the princely state of Bahawalpur, which was the second-largest state in the British Raj.^[3]
• Cholistan gallery, displaying art and heritage of the Cholistan region.
• Sadiq Khan Gallery^[4]

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