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Role of museums in Depicting history of cultural heritage of Pakistan

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dc.contributor.author Bano, Sha
dc.date.accessioned 2021-06-29T21:39:17Z
dc.date.available 2021-06-29T21:39:17Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.identifier.citation Bano, Sha (2019) Role of museums in Depicting history of cultural heritage of Pakistan,International Conference on Heritage as Soft Power,Centre for Heritage Studies, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka.Pag. 73 en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 978-955-704-134-6
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/23014
dc.description.abstract Ancient history of Pakistan is spanned over millions of years. Evidence of human activity in the past can be traced from Stone Age to famous Indus valley civilization and then there is a series of foreign invasions, one can find all hues in the history and archaeology of Pakistan. But here is the dilemma of majority of Pakistanis of whether to start our history from first Muslim invasion or not. Islam is the state religion of Pakistan and more than 95% population is Muslim. People are hesitant to their own history. They don't take pride as the successor of Indus Valley Civilization. They prefer to start their history from 712 AD, when a Muslim invader Muhammad Bin Qasim captured this area. But now it's time to accept all sons of soil. And in this regard soft power of museums can be of great help. According to research soft power is more effective where opinion of public is gradually changed through attraction and persuasion. A museum is just a warehouse if it can't preserve and present the history in a proper manner and can't educate the public. Now museums of Pakistan are realizing that they should exercise this soft power to achieve the influence through different activities rather than only being a landmark. en_US
dc.publisher Centre for Heritage Studies, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. en_US
dc.subject Pakistan, Ancient History, Museum, Archaeology en_US
dc.title Role of museums in Depicting history of cultural heritage of Pakistan en_US


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