title: Military Museums in Postcolonial Countries: Vytautas the Great War Museum in Kaunas and the Army Museum in Lahore
abstract: This chapter critically analyses and compares the role of military museums in postcolonial Lithuania and Pakistan.Drawn from close readings of the exhibition content at the Vytautas the Great War Museum in Kaunas and the Army Museum Lahore in Pakistan, the chapter discusses how the museums use exhibitions to generate memories of their national past.Both military museums exhibit memories embedded in the colonial legacy, providing the limitations of the national narrative.Since the emphasis on the