 When the present building of the museum was constructed it was removed further west and placed opposite the University Hall.Repaired in 1977, the cannon now rests on Mall Road (Shahrah-e-Quaid-e-Azam) with Pharmacy Department, University of the Punjab on one side, and National College of Arts (NCA) and Lahore Museum on the other.It came to be known as "Kim's Gun" after Rudyard Kipling in whose childhood memoirs it is frequently mentioned.