Taxila Museum
The Taxila Museum of Pakistan is located in Taxila, a city in Punjab province of Pakistan. This museum displays a vast collection of Gandharan art dating from the first to the seventh centuries CE. Many objects in the collection were excavated from Taxila's ancient ruins, which is why many of the objects were gathered there.
Several historical sites are easily accessible by foot from the museum. The area is rich in ancient stupas and ruins. Prior to making any decisions, it is important to examine the situation
Introduction [edit]
In Rawalpindi, it is home to the Museum of Taxila, which is located in the tehsil of Taxila. On site is a Gandharan art museum that specializes in this type of art, as well as the hotel. At the latest, 600 BC or 700 BC is believed to be the date when Taxila was first constructed.
The Taxila Museum has a statue of Buddha meditating from the 4th century
History [edit]
Taxila museum construction began in 1918 with the foundation being laid. A foundation stone was laid in 1918 by Viceroy of India Lord Chelmsford in order to start the construction of the building. Sir Muhammad Habibullah, the Minister of Education at the time, who was the Minister of Education at the time, opened the museum in 1928[1]. Sir Muhammad Habibullah was the Minister of Education. It was not possible for the original plan for the Archaeological Survey of India to be completed in 1928 upon Sir John Marshall's retirement as Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India. When the Pakistani government decided to construct the northern gallery in 1998, international assistance was used in order to complete the project.
Collection and display[edit]
There is a wide range of objects that are displayed in the museum, such as stones, stucco, terracotta, silver, gold, iron, and semiprecious stones. In general, there are artifacts on display that are dated between 600 BC and 500 AD, with the majority of artifacts dated between 600BC and 500AD being on display. There are ancient objects found in three ancient cities that are associated with Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain religions. The area is not only home to Buddhist temples and monasteries, but there are also ruins of Greek architecture that can be found here.
Gandharan art [edit]
The Taxila Museum in Pakistan contains a significant and comprehensive collection of stone Buddhist sculpture from the first to the seventh centuries (known at the time as Gandharan art). Sir John Marshall, who carried out a number of excavations in the Taxila Valley, made an important contribution to the collection by excavating in the Taxila Valley. Other excavation sites in the region, as well as other sites within Gandhanra, have also left behind objects that have been rediscovered by Ram Das Collection and confiscated by the police or customs authorities. As of today, there are more than 1400 objects represented in the collection, of which 409 have been published so far[2].
Numismatic collection [edit]
The Taxila Museum is not only a museum on the site of Taxila, but it is also a repository for numismatic material that was discovered by archaeologists during their excavations at Taxila, apart from being a museum on the site of Taxila. It was under the direction of John Marshall, the director of the Archaeological Survey of India, that this project was initiated in 1917 and the excavations began. There has been more than a decade since these excavations began, but they are still going on today. A large number of coins can be found in the collection, some dating back as far as the Indo-Greeks, some dating as far as the Kushans. This collection of drawings is in the process of being published, and a number of them are included in Marshall's original excavation reports as part of the ongoing project for publication.