Lok Virsa Museum

Lok Virsa Museum
Urdu: لوک ورثہ عجائب گھر‎
View of entrance to the museum
Location	Islamabad, Capital Territory, Pakistan
Type	Art, heritage
Website	Official website

Lok Virsa Museum (Urdu: لوک ورثہ عجائب گھر‎) is situated in Islamabad, Pakistan. It displays the cultural heritage of Pakistani people. The living style of the different areas of Pakistan is exhibited here in statues, pictures, pottery, music and textile work. Lok Virsa is the finest cultural museum in Pakistan.

The Lok Virsa Museum also known as the Folk Heritage Museum run by the National Institute of Folk & Traditional Heritage represents art works towards preserving the living folk and traditional culture and crafts of Pakistan. It is located near Shakarparian Hills and has a large display of embroidered costumes, jewellery, woodwork, metalwork, block printing, ivory and bone work. Traditional architecture facades exhibiting such skills as fresco, mirror work and marble inlay; tile, mosaic and stucco tracery are also displayed.

Adjacent to the Lok Virsa Museum, the Lok Virsa Heritage Reference Library is well equipped with resource data on ethnography, anthropology, folk music, art, history and crafts. Books on culture, heritage, audio and video-cassettes of folk and classical vocal and instrumental music are available for sale at Lok Virsa’s sales centre.

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Coordinates: 33°41′N 73°04′E / 33.683°N 73.067°E / 33.683; 73.067

Museums in Pakistan

Archaeological and historical	Archaeological Museum of Balochistan Bahawalpur Museum Bhit Shah Museum Chakdara Museum Chitral Museum Harappa Museum Lahore Museum Lyallpur Museum Mardan Museum Moenjodaro Museum Multan Museum National Museum of Pakistan Peshawar Museum Saidu Sharif Museum Sindh Museum State Bank of Pakistan Museum Taxila Museum Umerkot Museum

Archives	Citizen's Archive of Pakistan National Archives of Pakistan Punjab Archives Sindh Archives

Art Galleries	Abasin Arts Council Alhamra Arts Council Balochistan Arts Council Faisalabad Arts Council Fakir Khana Mohatta Palace Multan Arts Council National Art Gallery Pakistan Arts Council Rawalpindi Arts Council

Biographical	Chugtai Museum Iqbal Manzil Quaid-e-Azam House Shair Ali Museum Wazir Mansion

Heritage	Khaplu Palace Lok Virsa Museum

Military	Command and Staff College Museum Pakistan Army Museum PAF Museum Pakistan Maritime Museum

Natural history	Pakistan Forest Museum Pakistan Museum of Natural History Quetta Geological Museum

Science	National Museum of Science and Technology

Transport	Golra Sharif Railway Museum

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Textile museums

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Central America	Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Textiles and Clothing

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Asia	Bhutan Textile Museum Calico Museum of Textiles Chojun Textile & Quilt Art Museum Korea Museum of Modern Costume Kurdish Textile Museum Lok Virsa Museum Textile Museum (Jakarta) Yokohama Silk Museum

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City and geography	Islamabad Capital Territory, Capital Development Authority Koral Rawalpindi Model Town Humak Pothohar Plateau Margalla Hills Gakhar Simly Dam Golra Sharif Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (1901–55) Punjab Birds

Economy and transport	Developments in Islamabad Blue Area State Bank of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto International Airport Karakoram Highway Grand Trunk Road Constitution Avenue Faizabad Interchange Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry Islamabad Highway Islamabad Stock Exchange Jinnah Avenue Seventh Avenue Ninth Avenue Khayaban-e-Iqbal

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Education	Educational institutions Air University Al-Huda Institute Allama Iqbal Open University Bahria University Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Federal Urdu University Hamdard University International Islamic University Mohammad Ali Jinnah University National Defence University Foundation University, Islamabad National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences National University of Modern Languages National University of Sciences and Technology Institute of Space Technology Iqra University Quaid-i-Azam University Shifa College of Medicine Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology

Sports	Islamabad Leopards

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