Lok Virsa: Pakistan’s Unique Ethnological Museum

Somehow our museums are not a popular subject for newspapers. Also called the Virsa Museum (because it was planned and laid out by Lok Virsa, the National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage) it is completely different from other museums. The museum is splendid opportunity for the people of Pakistan who live in Islamabad or visit it, to have a look at their links with the past spreading over a thousand years or more. With soft music playing in the background, a visitor sees the development of various crafts and trades…