ABBOTT Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology Abbottabad

Abbott Museum of Archeology & Ethnology, Abbottabad 

The Abbott Museum was completed and established by the efforts of worthy Vice Chancellor Hazara University Mansehra, Prof. Dr. Ihsan Ali in a short span of time and was then inaugurated by the Federal Minister, Nisar Muhammad Khan on February 22, 2008.
Museum displays the following:

• Archaeological profile of NWFP in general while district Abbottabad and Haripur in particular due to the recent archaeological investigations done by the staff of the Museum. We have documented 304 sites in Abbottabad which proved that the history of the areas goes back to 6th century BC while in Haripur, 292 sites were recorded and the history goes beyond the Buddhist period.
• The Second aspect representing the ethnology of the area, that how they live now and what they are using inside their houses, their traditions, their dresses etc.
• Representing Buddha life story in water colour painting, which is in process.
• The fourth aspect of the Museum is to highlight those political personalities who contributed to the establishment of Abbottabad town and we represented them in a unique artwork “Burning Art”.
• While the fifth aspect of the Museum is to highlight the Gandhara Grave Culture. For this purpose, we display the Gandhara Grave Culture Gankirini-o-Take Excavations 2008 (Chitral) material.
• To highlight the British Colonial Buildings, we have displayed photographs of these buildings for that purpose.
  During the archaeological survey, the surface collections from different sites belonging to Buddhists, Hindushahi and Islamic period have been displayed in the Museum.