Mohatta Palace
Museum
The Mohatta Palace was built in 1927 as the summer residence of a wealthy businessman who named the palace after himself. The unique design of the building was inspired by the majestic residences of the Rajput clan’s princes, and utilises yellow stones from Gizri, one of Karachi’s neighborhoods, as well as pink stones from Jaipur, India’s Pink City. The palace was then acquired by the Government of Sindh, the region where Karachi is located, in 1995; and it was then established that it would have become a place to celebrate the traditional, decorative arts of Pakistan. But the museum also hosts contemporary art exhibitions: the recently closed show Labyrinth Reflections presented to the public the work of Rashid Rana, a globally acclaimed multimedia artist, arguably the leading Pakistani talent of his generation.