 Other objects come from excavated sites elsewhere in Gandhanra, from donations such as the Ram Das Collection, or from material confiscated by the police and custom authorities.The whole collection contains more than 1400 objects, and 409 have been published
The Taxila Museum is a site museum and is the repository for the majority of the numismatic material found during archaeological work in Taxila.Digging began in 1917 under John Marshall, then director of the Archaeological Survey of India, and continued until 1934.