Fakir Khana

Fakir Khana
فقیر خانہ (Urdu)
	Museum entrance
Established	1901 (as a public museum)
Location	Lahore's Walled City, Hakimaan Bazaar, near Bhati Gate, Lahore
Type	Private museum and house
Collection size	Over 20,000 objects
Owner	Fakir family

Fakir Khana (Urdu: فقیر خانہ) is a private museum and house located in Lahore, Pakistan, owned by the Fakir family. Fakhir Khana contains over 20,000 objects, and is the largest privately owned museum in South Asia.^[1]^[2]

Location

The museum is located within Lahore's Walled City, along the Hakimaan Bazaar, near the Bhati Gate.

Background

The Fakir family settled in Lahore around 1730, and established a publishing house.^[2] Their status in Lahore society derived from its connections to the Sikh Empire - three of the family's ancestors, Fakir Nooruddin, Fakir Azizuddin, and Fakir Imamuddin, served as emissaries to Maharaja Ranjit Singh.^[2] The family amassed a collection of objects, including many bestowed to the family by Ranjit Singh.^[2] The family opened their house as a museum open to the public in 1901,^[3] and the site receives some government funds for its maintenance.^[4]

Collection

The museum's collection consists of approximately 20,000 pieces of art and artifacts mostly from the 18th to 20th centuries,^[3] including a small collection of Gandharan artifacts.^[3] The collection also contains numerous gifts bestowed to the Fakir family by Ranjit Singh,^[2] as well as 10,000 manuscripts, 180 displayed miniature paintings, Sikh era textiles, statuary, pottery, and carved ivory pieces.^[2] The collection also includes a 12 by 6 inch painting of Nawab Mumtaz Ali, that was painted with a single hair and required 15 years to be completed.^[3]

House

The house in which the museum is located offers insight into the lifestyles of upper class Lahori families during the Sikh and British eras.^[3] It was originally owned by Raja Todar Mal, finance minister to the Mughal Emperor Akbar.^[3]

References

^ "Fakir Khana Museum". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Tariq, Saman (February 2016). "A Visit to the Fakir Khana". Tanqeed Magazine. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Fakir Khana Museum". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
^ Bhatti, Shaila (2016). Translating Museums: A Counterhistory of South Asian Museology. Routledge. ISBN 9781315416441. Retrieved 9 October 2017.

External links

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[1] "Fakir Khana Museum". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 9 October 2017.

[tanqeed-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Tariq, Saman (February 2016). "A Visit to the Fakir Khana". Tanqeed Magazine. Retrieved 9 October 2017.

[google-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Fakir Khana Museum". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 9 October 2017.

[4] Bhatti, Shaila (2016). Translating Museums: A Counterhistory of South Asian Museology. Routledge. ISBN 9781315416441. Retrieved 9 October 2017.

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