Centralized Museum for Karachi University Planned

The University of Karachi will establish its own museum of science, natural history and art on campus for the benefit of university students and visitors, said the university vice-chancellor on Tuesday.

Speaking at the launching ceremony of computerized record of the zoology museum of the university, vice-chancellor Dr Pirzada Qasim, said that museums had not been only a place of entertainment, but also a source of self-learning, inspiration and introduction to new ideas.

He said that different departments of the university were maintaining mini-museums or exhibit-display rooms, which would be shifted and merged under one roof at a centralized location for the establishment of a big museum. We have got collections related to the subjects of geography, geology, botany, sociology and others, which needed to be preserved on scientific lines and utilized at the optimum…