Abstract

Upon his death in 1919, king Habibullah Khan (r. 1901-1919) left behind a small collection of manuscripts as well as various archives, coins, family items, weapons, miniatures and other works of art. These objects were preserved by the royal family, who kept them at the summer palace andother villas in the fashionable Baghe Bala quarter of Kabul.
In 1931 the collection was relocated to its present home at Darul Aman. During the subsequent decades, the collections in the National Museum were gradually expanded to include archaeological finds from archaeological excavations around Afghanistan.