ISLAMABAD: The management of Lok Virsa is concentrating on renovating and expanding its public facilities, especially those concerning the heritage museum.

This was stated by Executive Director Lok Virsa Shahera Shahid while talking to mediapersons on Tuesday.

Ms Shahid said the open air transport museum was an integral part of the heritage museum and its purpose was to preserve traditions of the country and to acquaint the younger generation of the indigenous folk heritage.

“Those who have not been to Lok Virsa before must visit the beautiful open air transport museum set up by the National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage,” she said.

“The museum has a full-size truck, a traditional houseboat from Manchar lake in Sindh, a tonga with a horse, a bullock cart with two bulls and a wooden ‘Baradari’ from Swat valley. All these displays decorated with traditional paraphernalia appear real to the visitors,” she said.

“If we go into details, we see that many trucks and buses in Pakistan are decorated by their owners.

These adorned vehicles are considered as moving art. Because of their unique decor and style, these vehicles are quite different in layout from other trucks around the world,” the Lok Virsa executive director said.

The traditional tonga on display was once a popular mode of urban transportation, and is now becoming a thing of the past after being replaced by the motorcycle rickshaws, she said.