Mohatta Palace 

is located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It was built by Shivratan Chandraratan Mohatta,

an ambitious self-made Sikhbusinessman from Marwar as his summer home in 1927.The architect of the
palace was Agha Ahmed Hussain.[1] However, Mohatta could enjoy this building for only about two
decades before independence of Pakistan and he left Karachi for India. He built the Palace in the tradition
of stone palaces in Rajasthan, using pink Jodhpur stone in combination with the local yellow stone from
Gizri. The amalgam gave the palace a distinctive presence in an elegant neighbourhood, characterised by
Mughal architecture which was located not far from the sea.

After Mohatta's departure to India, the Government of Pakistan acquired the building to house the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs in 1947.[1] Fatima Jinnah, the sister of the Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, moved
into it in 1964.[1] In the '60s Mohatta Palace was dubbed Qasre-e-Fatima, becoming the hub of her
presidential campaign against President Ayub Khan. After her questionable sudden death, her
sister Shireen Jinnah moved in to occupy the ground floor for many years. With her passing away in
1980, the palace was sealed.

Museum
In 1995 it was purchased by the Government of Sindh for its conversion into a Museum devoted to the
arts of Pakistan. As a result of the interest taken by the Government of Sindh who took over the
ownership of the property and appointed an independent board of trustees headed by the Governor, to
formulate recommendations on how best to adapt and use the palace. The trust was established to
manage the property and ensure that it would not be sold or utilised for commercial or any other purpose
other than that stipulated in the trust deed.Funds for the acquisition of collections for the museum and the
construction of an extension will be raised by the trustees through private and public grants, donations
and other fund raising activities.The Museum formally opened in 1999. Behind the building can be found a
small collection of "English" statues such as Queen Victoria, soldiers of the Raj.