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The Lahore Museum is on the Mall was once called the "Central Museum"
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The Lahore Museums is the place Rudyard Kipling was referred to in his famous novel Kim as the Aijab Ghar. This House of Strange Things is what locals were said to call this early museum. His father, Sir Lockwood Kipling was the first curator and one of the major designers of this museum in central Lahore. It was opened in 1894, and housed a collection curated by the elder Kipling that dated back to the 1864 Lahore Exhibition.
Today the building is popular both among tourists and local residents. An eclectic collection of ancient art, paintings from the past few centuries and early Buddhist art is on display. The most famous piece is the fasting Buddha, a skeletal representation of the Buddha that is among the most startling images of the Buddha ever made.  |
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