The Peshawar Museum is in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan, and the provincial government owns it. It was founded in 1907 as Victoria Hall, named in memory of Queen Victoria. The two-story building combines British, Hindu, Buddhist and Mughal Islamic architectural styles.
It first had a single exhibition hall, and two more were added in 1969 and 1970. An expansion in 2004 and 2005 added a new block with two galleries, storage halls, offices for the provincial archaeology department, a conservation laboratory and a cafeteria, and the historic hall was renovated.
The collection has nearly 14,000 items, notably Gandhara Buddhist art, as well as coins, manuscripts, weapons and Kalash artifacts.
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