National Museum of Pakistan. Courtesy of Wikipedia, 2009.
While working on a sculpture project this Thanksgiving weekend, I asked my mom about art in Pakistan. I asked when she was younger and living in Pakistan, if she had ever visited an art museum there. This may appear as a strange question but I figured that viewing art would be for the elite and those who are studying at university. My mom did study biology at the collegiate level but I wonder if she had been exposed to visual arts, aesthetic expression, or simply other cultures. She did mention one name, which was Frere.
When she said this name, my mind instantly triggered to Charles Lang Freer of the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and the possibility of a wunderkammer, or "cabinet of curiosities." However, this museum does not have a correlation to Freer but instead to British colonel, Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere. Although there is limited information available on the museum and its collections, I would love to visit it someday.
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