The Lahore Museum was originally established in 1865-66 on the site of the hall or building of the 1864 Punjab Exhibition and later shifted to its present site located on The Mall, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan in 1894.
Rudyard Kipling's father, John Lockwood Kipling, was one of the earliest and most famous curators of the museum. The next curator was K. N. Sitaram.
Over 250,000 visitors were registered in 2005.
The current building of Lahore Museum was designed by the well-known architect Sir Ganga Ram. The Museum is the biggest museum of the country. A number of rooms have been under repair for a long time and others still show a rather old-fashioned and often rudimental display of objects, with Urdu captions only.