About
Quaid-e-Azam House Museum, also known as Flagstaff House, is the former Karachi residence of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. Located on Fatima Jinnah Road, the house was purchased by Jinnah in 1943 and served as his home from 1944 until his death in 1948. It is one of the city’s most important house museums, preserving a setting closely connected to the final years of the Pakistan movement and the country’s first year after independence.
The museum presents Jinnah’s personal life through furniture, photographs, documents, clothing, and other belongings associated with him and his family. These objects give visitors a more domestic view of a figure usually encountered through public speeches, official portraits, and political history. The house also reflects the life of his sister, Fatima Jinnah, who remained there after his death.
Restored and opened to the public as a museum in 1993, Quaid-e-Azam House is both a historic residence and a place of remembrance. Its significance lies not only in the collection it holds, but in the building itself: a preserved space where visitors can connect the larger history of Pakistan’s founding with the everyday environment in which Jinnah lived.
