KP Governor House to serve as an extension to Peshawar Museum

Author: News Desk

The Governor House of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa(KP) will be used as an extension of Peshawar Museum to display more than 30,000 artefacts that are presently in store in archaeology department of the province.

According to a private TV channel, sources in the archaeology department told that the decision has been taken following Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood’s announcement of using official buildings across the country as galleries, museums and educational institutes.

The sources said that KP Governor House could be used best as an extension of Peshawar Museum so that space is created there to display more of collection from Gandhara civilisation, which has been lying in the basement of the museum, since decades. With its vast collection of the ancient days, Peshawar Museum is known as the place in the world with the biggest collection from Gandhara civilisation.

Sources further said space would be created by shifting manuscripts and other relics from the Sikh and British eras from Peshawar Museum to the Governor House.

This way, the Governor House museum would display the diverse history of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and its tribal areas while Peshawar Museum would be dedicated for the collection of Gandhara civilisation.

Published in Daily Times, September 14th 2018.

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