KARACHI, April 1: The Defence Housing Authority has embarked on developing a museum complex spread over five acres acquired from the Pakistan Railways in Karachi. The project includes a contemporary art museum, Karachi heritage museum, folk art museum and an army museum.

The Foundation for the Museum of Modern Art (FOMMA) is setting up the FOMMA-DHA Art Centre temporarily in a building at the Race Course Gardens, which has been made available to FOMMA by the DHA.

There would be a display space for medium size exhibitions and facilities for group discussion, lectures, seminars, slideshows, etc.

The FOMMA is also actively working to establish contacts with major museums of modern art in various countries to make arrangements with them for the exchange of art publications and other audio-visual material.

In a specific area of the museum development, FOMMA is currently working with the DHA and the Heritage Foundation for developing a museum enclave as part of the DHA’s 112-acre Race Course Gardens project.

In close proximity to the gardens, the DHA has acquired four colonial-era buildings from the Pakistan Railways.—PPI