Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, spent his final years in this modest two-storey house in the Ziauddin Ahmed Road area. He died here in September 1948, just over a year after the country he created came into existence. The house has been preserved as a museum, and the rooms have been maintained much as they were during his occupation: personal belongings, furniture, and photographs that put flesh on the official image of a man usually encountered only on currency and in formal portraits.
The museum is less visited than the Mazar-e-Quaid and consequently more interesting — the scale is human rather than monumental. Guides are usually available and worth engaging; the anecdotes they provide about Jinnah's final months, his declining health, and the chaos of managing a new nation from a small office in this house, add texture that the exhibits alone cannot. Entry is inexpensive. The neighbourhood surrounding the house has decayed considerably since Jinnah's time, which makes the well-tended interior feel something like a time capsule.