Swat Museum
Swat Museum
- Address
- Saidu Sharif Rd Saidu Sharif
- Hours
- 08:30-12:30 & 14:30-17:30 summer, 09:00-13:00 & 14:00-16:00 Thu-Tue winter
Lonely Planet review for Swat Museum
Partly funded by the Japanese, the excellent Swat Museum in Saidu Sharif should be on anyone's itinerary if they have an interest in Buddhist Swat. Gandharan-style statuettes and friezes depict the lives of the Buddha along with seals, tiny reliquaries and other treasures, mostly from Butkara No 1 and Udegram. In other rooms are pre-Buddhist artefacts, and an ethnographic gallery with traditional carved Swati furniture, jewellery and some wonderful embroideries.
