ISLAMABAD: The ethnicity and indigenous cultures of Pakistan have been artistically showcased through three-dimensional creative dioramas and visual presentations at Lok Virsa Museum in Islamabad.
The Pakistan National Museum of Ethnology here at Shakarparian, known as Heritage Museum, projects the country’s culture at home and abroad as it is not only frequently visited by Pakistani nationals but also foreign delegates and diplomats.
The museum has been conceptualised, conceived and created by Lok Virsa (National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage), a specialised organisation dealing with documentation and preservation of Pakistan’s cultural heritage.
The main display halls include antiquity and continuity, ethnic tribes, thematic exhibitions and artisans-at-work, ballads and romances, sufis and shrines, musical heritage, textile and embroidery, jewellery and metal work, architecture and wood work.
A spacious hall in the museum on ‘Sufis and Shrines’, depicts the contributions and message of our great Sufi saints.
Here one can visit and see the architecture with intricate minor work done in an artistic way.
There are also pigeons landmark, which looks as real as one can see in the shrines.
Besides establishing the display on Sufism, Lok Virsa has also published a series of books on the works of Sufi poets and saints such as Sultan Bahu, Baba Bhullay Shah, Sachal Sarmast, Laal Shahbaz Qalandar, Waris Shah, Mian Muhammad Bakhsh and others and this effort is still ongoing.
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