Taxila Museum
The archaeological
museum at Taxila is a real treasure house. Its collection of coins,
jewellery, relics, and gold and silver caskets alone are worth
a King's ransom. But its real glory comes from stone and stucco
that exquisite young. Its impressive collection will help you
get to know gautama, the Lord Buddha, better. The ivy-covered,
Gothic-style museum is set in a picturesque garden. There is in
the central hall a plaster cast of the stupa topped with seven
umbrellas found in Mohra Moradu. A relief map of the valley pinpoints
the location for the different excavated sites.
There are rows of cases filled with the famed sculptures, stucco
reliefs, stones, plaster and terra-cotta figures, glass tiles
and such objects as toilet articles, seats, beads, bark manuscripts,
silver utensils, carpentry tools, surgical instruments and much
else. A nominal entry fee is charged at the museum.