During the 17th and 18th centuries, Kasur was a great centre of learning and spiritual education and that is why the legendary Sufi poet, Baba Waris Shah — who wrote the Punjabi epic Heer Ranjha — migrated here from Jallalpur Jattan (Sheikhupura) to seek knowledge from the same teacher and institution where Baba Bulleh Shah got enlightened with mysticism and logic.The celebrated poet Ameer Khusro also wrote a poem on Kasur and called it the 'city of palaces'. According to legend, famous Queen Razia Sultana is also buried here, in the ancient Kot Ghulam Mohammad Graveyard.

Besides the historical milestones, this city is globally famed for its exclusively delicious foods like Kasuri methi, Kasuri faluda, Kasuri deg roast chargha, Kasuri tawa fried fish, dahi pakorian, barfi, sohan halwa, andrassa, phenian, khakhar purra and shakarpara, available only in Kasur.

The town enjoys an envious status for producing kasuri khussa and shoes, leather garments, woodcraft — especially wooden crockery, khaddi cloth, khais (blanket), rugs, lungi, and jute-furniture. Week-long celebrations of Basant festival have also made this city world famous with kite flying competitions, sports galas and special exhibition stalls held every year.

The city has also contributed a lot in providing pillars to the edifice of classical music in the subcontinent by giving birth to Ustad Bare Ghulam Ali Khan, Ustad Barkat Ali Khan and Madam Noor Jahan. Contemporary singers such as Afshan, Bushra Sadiq and great film icon Yousaf Khan, too, hail from this city. The town has never been behind in regard to the progress and promotion of sculpture and fine arts and the names of Ustad Allah Bakhsh and artist Zubi are world famous. Legendary writers Ashfaq Ahmed Khan and Mumtaz Mufti have also been very closely associated with this city and its surroundings.

Pregnant with all these historical and cultural gems, Kasur was direly in the need of a museum which materialised in 1999 when Zulfiqar Khossa, then governor of Punjab, inaugurated a museum in the historical colonial-era building on main Ferozpur Road in Kasur. This building was once used for magisterial offices and residences. Today, Kasur Museum has five eye-catching galleries.

The Archaeological Gallery fascinates visitors with rare samples of fossils, which have been discovered from Bin Ameer Khatoon in district Chakwal. Besides this, the gallery displays ceramic pottery, sculpture, utensils and weight balances retrieved from the archaeological sites of Harrapa and Chakwal. Gandhara statues of the Buddha and other Hindu gods are also on display here.

The Coin Gallery presents a vast range of rare coins from Indo-Greek era to Kashan and Hindu rulers' times, initial Islamic rule, Mughal era, Sikh period and the British Raj. A unique and chronologically organised collection of Pakistani coins issued from 1948 to the current year is also displayed in this gallery.

The Pakistan Movement Gallery portrays the whole story of the freedom movement and apprises students about the significant people in the struggle for independence through a domino of pictures. After the Islamic Gallery and the Gallery of Art and Classical Music, the last but not the least is the Kasur Craft Gallery, which offers a broad range of exclusive leather garments, carvings, khaddi cloth, rugs, special char-khana Kasuri khais (a light blanket) etc. Kasur has always been famous for these very delicate and colourful products. The premises of the museum also houses the historical tomb of Wakeel Khan, a senior minister of Sher Shah Suri.