What is Lahore Museum?
{{Infobox museum | name = Lahore Museum | native_name = {{nq|عجائب گھر لاہور}} | native_name_lang = Urdu | logo = | image = File:Lahore Museum, Lahore.jpg | image_size = 300px | caption = Entrance to the museum | alt = View of entrance to the Lahore Museum | map_type = Pakistan Lahore | map_caption = | coordinates = {{coord|31.568226|74.308174|display=inline}} | former_name = | established = 1865, later shifted to present site 1894 | dissolved = | location = [[The Mall, Lahore|The Mall]], [[Lahore]]<br> [[Punjab (Pakistan)|Punjab]]<br> [[Pakistan]] | type = [[Archaeological museum|Archaeology]], [[Art gallery|art]], heritage, modern history, religious | visitors = 250,000 in 2005 | director = | president = | curator = | publictransit = | website = {{official website|http://www.lahoremuseum.gov.pk/}} | network = | imagesize = 200 | map_alt = | collection = Pre & Proto, Coins, Hindu Buddhist & Jain, Gandhara, Islamic, Manuscripts, Miniature Paintings, General Collection, Arms, Ethnological, Postage & Stamps, Arts & Crafts, Contemporary Paintings, Pakistan Movement Gallery }} The '''Lahore Museum''' or '''Ajaib Ghar''' ([[Urdu]]: Wonder House) is a museum in the city of [[Lahore]], [[Pakistan]]. It is the largest and best museum in the country. ==History== The original old Lahore Museum was made during [[British India]]n times in the 1860s, in what had been the old 'Punjab Exhibition Hall'<ref>''Handbook of the Punjab'',Lahore, 1864</ref> and the famous gun [[Zam Zama]] was installed outside it in 1870. This old museum, along with the Punjab School of Arts (later the [[Mayo College of Arts]]) was looked after by [[John Lockwood Kipling]] (1837-1911) father of the writer [[Rudyard Kipling]], who mentioned the museum and Zam Zama in his ''[[Kim (book)]]'' (1901).<ref>Peter Hopkirk, ''Quest for Kim'', London:J Murray, 1996, pp.