Abstract
New museology has raised the status of museums to public spaces where interpretations and politics
of displays have replaced mere description of collections. Museums as heritage and memory sites
bridge times and spaces by relating past with present and future. These memory sites are not
innocent. Curators convey a political message through carefully selected and arranged exhibits.
This paper explains how the decline of pre-colonial Muslim kingdoms were imagined and
appropriated by the curators of the Lahore Museum to construct the “official memory” of the new
nation of Pakistan. These representations are displayed in the Pakistan Freedom Movement Gallery
(completed in 1974). The main objective of this display is to link the decline of Muslim kingdoms
with the struggle for independence of Pakistan.
Hussain Ahmad Khan, Komal Afzaal. (2022) ‘Official Memories’ of the Last Days: Images of the Muslim Rule in the Lahore Museum, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, volume 59, issue 2.
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