Programme Executive, Lok Virsa, Anwar-ul-Haq on Sunday said culture and education have come together under one roof in the federal capital in the shape of the Heritage Museum.
Talking to APP here on Sunday, he said primary purpose of the museum is to educate the present and future generations with valuable knowledge.
Giving information about Lok Virsa, Heritage Museum, he said it is the largest museum in the country with a covered area of 60,000 square feet.
Anwar said the museum comprises more than 25 large galleries and 4 blocks where cultures of various countries are depicted. These countries include Iran, Central Asian states and China.
The Programme Executive said the museum also has various halls for, architecture, musical heritage, future vision, textiles, silk thread, ballads, romances and Sufis and Shrines.
However, he said, the hall of Future Vision is dedicated to Madr-e-Millat, Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah and other renowned women of Pakistan including Members National Assembly.
He said the museum library contains over 25,000 books, research reports and rare materials on Pakistan's cultural heritage including the Islamic legacy, Sufi writings and oral traditions.
The museum library is open for public and is the focal point for scholars and researchers on Pakistan's heritage, he added.
The Sound Archives contain over 20,000 professionally recorded tapes of authentic cultural materials, Anwar said.
He said the heritage museum traces the country's historical links not only with the Indus Valley and Taxila to the present times, but it also integrates the international cultural influences that have contributed in building Pakistani culture.
Anwar said, the heritage museum will remain a window for all the Federating Units of the nation, a place where people can see all of Pakistan at a glance from Karakorum and Hindukush mountains down to the warm waters of the Arabian Sea.
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