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Islamabad’s recordings and collections

Lok Virsa’s Media Centre says its mobile recording units can reach any part of the country. Garden Avenue, Shakarparian, is the address given by Lok Virsa’s Heritage Museum and the Pakistan Museum of Natural History.

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Green hills in the foreground with the built city of Islamabad beyond
Islamabad beyond the green hills in a wide city view.Photograph: Zain.3nov

At a glance

Lok Virsa recording equipment
Mobile field units and a studio[1]
Heritage Museum exhibits
Music, crafts and dioramas[2]
Natural-history scientific divisions
Botany, Earth Sciences and Zoology[3]

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Recordings made beyond the building

Lok Virsa’s Media Centre says it has a professional video studio and mobile recording and filming units that can reach any part of the country. It describes field surveys and village-to-village recordings of cultural traditions, including rituals, customs and festivals.[1]

Craft and music in museum halls

At Garden Avenue, Shakarparian, Lok Virsa’s Heritage Museum says its exhibit halls highlight folk heritage, traditional lifestyles, music, crafts and festivals. It describes using visual narratives, dioramas and ethnographic displays.[2]

Plants, fossils and animals

The Pakistan Museum of Natural History, also at Garden Avenue, Shakarparian, lists Botanical, Earth and Zoological Sciences divisions plus Public Services. The first three handle collection, preservation, identification and research on plants, fossils, minerals and animals.[3]

Good to know

A few clear answers before you explore.

How does Lok Virsa record traditions outside its building?

Its Media Centre uses mobile units for field recordings.[1]

Which subjects does the Heritage Museum describe?

Folk heritage, traditional lifestyles, music, crafts and festivals, with dioramas and ethnographic displays, according to the museum.[2]

What does the natural-history museum collect and study?

Plants, fossils, minerals and animals through three scientific divisions.[3]

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