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Shaila Bhatti's immersive study of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan is one of the first books to offer an in-depth historical and ethnographic analysis of a South Asian museum. Bhatti thus presents an alternative example of visitor experience and museum practice to that of the West, which has been the dominant museological model to date. This examination of the Lahore Museum's objects, staff, and visitors (past and present) provides an informative case study that reveals local perceptions and uses of museums in non-Western societies to be fraught with social, political, and cultural implicat

Museology --- museology --- Pakistan --- Museum techniques --- Museums --- Public institutions --- Cabinets of curiosities --- Philosophy. --- Technique --- Lahore Museum (Pakistan) --- ʻAjāʼib Ghar Lāhaur (Pakistan) --- Central Museum, Lahore --- Lāhaur ʻAjāʼib Ghar --- Lahore. --- Panjab Central Museum, Lahore --- Panjab Museum, Lahore --- Applied museology --- Museography --- Museum practices --- Museum studies