National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi

The Frere Hall of Karachi served as the national museum of Pakistan for many years. It established in 1951. But, later in 1969 the Government  of Pakistan apprehended the importance of the National Institution which favoured the construction of unique building in Burns Garden. The former President of Pakistan General Yahya Khan inaugurated the building on 21st February, 1970. The Museum is a complete panorama of Pakistani Cultural inheritance from Stone Age till now. All colonnades are set up in sequential series.

The first gallery is of Pre-Historic. This gallery showcases the old phases of human activities in Soan valley. It talked about the two million years ago human beings.

The 2^nd gallery has the name of Porto-Historic.  This gallery exhibits the excavated sites of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, the clone capital of Indus Valley Civilization. They are remarkable for consistency and equality in weight, Measures, Ceramics, Architecture, Town Planning and in others Arts and Crafts. The Gallery contains the figure of Priest King and Dancing Girls.

The 3^rd gallery has the essence of Late Harappa. Mostly, the material is about the burial and ritual tradition like urns, dis-on-stand, bowls. As of its name, the gallery also has the faded  glory glimpses of the Indus Civilization.

The  Gandhara gallery is applied to a Gandhara region. The region has established over the teaching of Lord Buddha. The Gandharan sculptures are classical item in this gallery.  The subject matter of the gallery is Gandharan conception, childhood, marriage, renunciation, enlightenment, preaching and death.

The 5^th is Hindu gallery adjacent to the Gandhara gallery, it is a small one and have some rare and venerate sculptures of the Brahmnical pantheon. The emblem of Brahma, the illustration of Mahabharata and the incarnations of the god Vishnu rule the gallery.

The 6^th one is Quran gallery which is newly renovated with air conditioning, new lighting and audio arrangement. It gives the guests an opportunity to enlighten themselves by best enlighten manuscripts in different handwriting.

The coin galley placed in the 7^th number in the museum. The history of coinage goes back to 6th century B.C. The gallery contains the small ingots of silver, Indo-Greeks, sytho-parthion, Islamic and Muslim dynastic coinage.

The 8^th one is the Freedom Movement gallery which showcases the documents, letters, photos, books, pamphlets, owing of Allama Iqbal, Quaid-e-Azam and other national heroes.

The Ethnology gallery makes an attempt to depict the living culture of the various tribes. The culture has models and dioramas of four provinces. The display embraces the costumes, jewellery, handicrafts  and wood carving.

 The 10^th gallery is Islamic gallery consists of stuff excavated from Banbhore and Mansarah site of the 8th Century. Other things are arts and crafts manuscripts, Ivory miniature paintings of Mughal Emperors and porcelain ceriman from different Islamic ateliers.

The 11^th gallery name is Islamic Art and Craft which consist of extraordinary glass objects, arms and armour hand-wore carpets, metal and China ware.

The museum also has the facilities of Education, Research, Paper Conservation services.The museum opens many ways to explore the region along with the historical significance.but, the choice is yours. The Karachi airports deal with many cheap flights to Karachi with best travel packages and tours.