we can starting posting photos of all the museums. Here's a list of all the museums in Bangladesh.

Bogra Zila Parishad Museum

Chittagong Ethnological Museum, Forest Research Institute Museum, Chittagong University Museum, Zia Smriti Museum, Fisheries Museum.

Chandpur Fisheries Museum

Comilla Rammala Museum

Cox's Bazar Fisheries Museum

Dhaka Bangladesh National Museum, Museum of Science and Technology, National Art Gallery (Shilpakala Academy), Folk Heritage Museum (Bangla Academy), Lalbagh Fort Museum, Postal Museum, Zainul Abedin Shishu Chitrasala, Museum of Geological Survey of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industry Corporation Design Centre Gallery of Textiles, Ceramics and Handicrafts, Children's Museum (Shishu Academy), Dhaka Nagar Jadughar, Muktijuddha Jadughar, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Smriti Jadughar, Police Museum

Dinajpur Dinajpur Museum

Faridpur Faridpur Museum

Kushtia Kushtia Museum

Mymensingh Mymensingh Museum, Zainul Abedin Sangrahashala

Kishoreganj Kishoreganj Museum

Rajshahi Varendra Research Museum, Varendra Academy Collectors, Shahid Smriti Sangrahashala, Rajshahi University

Rangpur Rangpur Museum

Rangamati Tribal Cultural Institute

Sunamganj Hasan Raja Museum

Sonargaon Bangladesh Folk Art Museum (Near Dhaka)

Birisiri Upajatya Cultural Academy Museum (Near Mymensingh)

Chheuria Lalan Museum (Near Kushtia)

Shilaidaha Kuthibari Memorial Museum (Near Kushtia)

Mahasthana Archaeological Site Museum (Near Bogra)

Shahjadpur Kacharibari Memorial Museum (Near Pabna)

Paharpur Archaeological Site Museum

Gurudaspur Chalanbil Museum

Mainamati Archaeological Site Museum (Near Comilla), Liberation War Museum

source: http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/M_0414.htm

The Bangladesh National Museum (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় যাদুঘর), formally inaugurated on 7 August 1913, was accorded the status of the national museum of Bangladesh on 17 November 1983. It is located Shahbag, Dhaka. The museum is well organized and displays have been housed in several departments like department of ethnography and decorative art, department of history and classical art, department of natural history, and department of contemporary and world civilization. The museum also has a conservation laboratory.

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The Liberation War Museum (called Muktijuddho Jadughar in Bangla) is a museum in Segunbagicha, Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The museum is dedicated to all freedom loving people of the world, and celebrate the sacrifices of martyrs of Bangladesh Liberation War.

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Bangabandhu Memorial Museum : Well known as 'Bangabondhu' (friend of Bengal), this is the residence of former President and leader during the liberation war, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who was assasinated with all his close and distant family members in this place in 1975. The former residence is now turned into a museum with the formers leaders portraits, stuff of personal usage, photographs of some major events during his lifetime.

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Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Museum is a centre for collection and preservation of Zainul Abedin's art. As per government order for a nation-wide preservation of the artist's paintings and works, the museum was established in 1975. The site selected was at the north end of Mymensingh, the hometown of Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin, by the nature surrounded shadowy banks of the old Brahmaputra. The concept of an archive was first conceptualised by the Shilpacharya who, in mid nineteen fifties, spearheaded the movement of collecting neglected pieces of invaluable works of art scattered all over rural Bangladesh. The art centre started on 7 July 1975 in a colonial building owned by a Mr Barden who later sold it to nalini ranjan sarkar, a member of the Viceroy's executive council.

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Ethnological Museum : A unique treasure house of variety of tribal culture and heritage of Bangladesh. The Ethnological Museum of Chittagong was established in the first half of nineteen sixties. The ethnological museum has at this moment 11 galleries to exhibit the various aspects of lifestyle of the 29 ethnic groups of the country, including twelve ethnic groups of Chittagong hill tracts. The exhibits represent all aspects of life and activities of the ethnic groups. The exhibits have been made lively and attractive by means of maps and photographs, models, wall paintings and by artificially creating the environment in which the tribes live. Besides there are plaques containing short introductory notes.

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Zia Memorial Museum : The Chittagong Circuit House built in 1913 atop a hillock was transformed into Zia Memorial Museum in memory of late President Ziaur Rahman who was martyred here by a few misled army personnel at dead of night on 30th May 1980.

The place has developed into a full-fledged museum by September 1993 with a well-equipped conference room, a library and as many as 12 galleries. A total of 743 exhibits that include 336 souvenirs and 13 documents are laid out across the galleries. The radio transmitter, the microphone, the chair and the table which were used by Shahid President Ziaur Rahman when reading the Declaration of Independence in 1971 are displayed in galleries 1 and 2. His personal effects and belongings are exhibited in galleries 3, 4 and 5. In galleries 4 & 7 are put up portraits of the martyred President and the gift items that were presented to him by different Heads of states and diplomats. Gallery 12 contains a reconstruction of the event of this martyrdom

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VARENDRA RESEARCH MUSEUM : Situated at Rajshahi, this museum has a rich collection of objects from Mohenjodaro and also from 16th to 19th centuries. The museum is devoted to the study of ancient history and culture. Its rich collection contains interesting objects of Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim heritage. The museum is maintained by Rajshahi University .

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Paharpur Museum, Bogra

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Brilliant work Tmac!

more photos of Paharpur Museum in Bogra

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Micheal Madhusudhan Dutt Museum

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Michael Madhusudan Dutt Museum near Jessore

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Bangladesh National Museum, Dhaka

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Jail authority to set up museum

The prisons authority will set up a museum displaying items of historic interests to give visitors few glimpses of various milestones in nearly 220 years’ history of jail in this land.

The display will range from turbans used by the jail wardens in the past to their modern uniform, from the rope used in hanging veteran anti-British rebel Masterda Surya Sen to the one for militant kingpins Shaikh Abdur Rahman and Siddiqul Islam Bangla Bhai.

Major Shamsul Haider Siddiqui, deputy inspector general of prisons, told New Age that the decision to set up the museum has been taken to allow people know about jail and preserve its history for the next generation.

‘Initially it will be set up at a place just outside the Dhaka Central Jail so that the common people can visit it easily and learn about the jail,’ he said, adding, the people can also know that the jail is turned into correction centre now from a punishment place of the past.

The museum will be opened in the early 2008 in Dhaka and gradually it will be expanded to other places, he said.

All the materials of the old jail and its present structures will be kept in the museum.

The jail was first established in the country in 1788 when the jail guards used to wear khaki half sleeves and half pant along with turban on head, holding a spear in hand.

After the liberation, the wardens used khaki full sleeves, full trousers, iron helmet and remained on guard with a 303 rifle in hand but now their uniform changed to deep green full sleeves, full trousers and hat on head since 2006.

All the male and female guards wear the same uniform.

In the past, the prisoners, who were sentenced to rigorous imprisonment, were usually engaged in produce mastered oil by pulling oil-press, known as ghani.

And such one was found in the Jamalpur jail and it will be brought to Dhaka for keeping it in the museum, said the DIG prisons.

The room where four national leaders, Tajuddin Ahmed, Syed Nazrul Islam, AHM Kamruzzaman and Captain M Monsur Ali, were killed in 1975 has been preserved in the Dhaka Central Jail since the Awami League government came in power in 1996.

The place where Masterda Surya Sen was hanged was also preserved at Chittagong Central Jail and the rope which was used in hanging him has been brought to Dhaka for display in the museum, he said.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was detained in the jail for several times and the goods and utensils including the cage for birds he used during his stay in the jail will be collected for display in the museum, Shamsul Haider Siddiquee, said.

‘We also talked to the VIP prisoners like Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia about displaying their usable items in the museum’, he said.

http://www.newagebd.com/front.html#16

Very nice

Zia Museum, Chittagong

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Zia Museum, Chittagong

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National Museum, Dhaka

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A nice place to visit... very rich collection.

National Museum , Dhaka

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FFs to set up museum in Chittagong on war of independence

Twelve eminent citizens and freedom fighters have taken an initiative to build a museum on the country’s war of independence in the port city of Chittagong.

They announced the noble initiative at a reunion of freedom fighters and family members of martyred war heroes at a community centre in the city on Sunday.

The museum, styled, Muktijuddha Jadughar, Chattagram, will be set up to collect, preserve and display mementos and relics of the war in 1971 and other historic movements.

Chief of the museum Faruk-E-Azam, Bir Pratik, poet and journalist Abul Momen, former vice-chancellor of the Chittagong University Professor Alamgir Mohammad Serajuddin and Dr Mahfuzur Rahman, among others, spoke at the function chaired by writer Begum Mustari Shafi, wife of a martyred freedom fighter.

They highly appreciated the initiative to build a war museum in Chittagong and said it would help preserve the memories of the most historic events of the nation.

The future generations will know about the country’s history through the museum, they added. The 12 initiators urged the government to allocate land and other necessary support for setting up the museum. Around 100 freedom fighters announced that they would hand over some important objects to the museum authorities soon.

Earlier, they constituted a trustee board to develop and run the activities of the institution.

The trustee board members are Begum Mustari Shafi, Mohammad Nurul Islam (industrialist), freedom fighters Faruk-E-Azam Bir Pratik, Mahfuzur Rahman, writer Mahbubul Haq, lawyer Rana Dash Gupta, journalist Abul Momen, freedom Akku (H.A) Chowdhury, women organiser Hannana Begum, edotor Rusho Mahmud, social worker Mehraj Tahsin Shafi and sports organiser Md Mamtazul Haque Rukku.

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Varendra Research Museum, Rajshahi

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Zia Museum, Chittagong

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Dhaka Jail to have a museum
Objects used by both great leaders and infamous criminals to be on display

The prison authorities recently decided to set up jail museums where things used by the country's prominent political personalities as well as infamous militants during their stay in prisons all over the country would be on display for the general public.

The first museum of its kind would be located at Dhaka Central Jail on Nazimuddin Road in old Dhaka.

Prisons in Bangladesh are part of the country's history as not only corrupt politicians, militants or other criminals serve time here for their wrongdoings, but also many great leaders are imprisoned here for their ideological beliefs. A number of the leaders and anti-colonial patriots were also executed in these prisons.

Maj Shamsul Haider Siddiqui, DIG (prisons), told Star City that objects used by history makers like Masterda Surya Sen and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who fought against tyranny, and notorious militants like Bangla Bhai and Shaikh Abdur Rahman would be on display at the museum.

"Over the course of time many famous personalities stayed in jail. All the things they used everyday are part of the history now. We want to evoke some of that history to the general people," Siddiqui said.

"It will be a small-scale effort in the beginning. Currently we are collecting items from all around the country," he added.

Initially, the museum will be run on internal budget, said Siddiqui. "If necessary, we will ask the government for allocation [of funds] in the future."

After the opening of the first museum at Dhaka Central Jail, more such museums will be set up in 66 other jails across the country, he added.

Dhaka Central Jail is the largest among the 67 correctional facilities in Bangladesh. Originally built for around 3,000 detainees, the prison currently houses around 10,000 inmates including convicts and other prisoners awaiting trial. The prison also houses 78 unfortunate children of the female prisoners.

Established on 36 acres of land, the central jail on Nazimuddin Road witnessed many historical episodes. The facility housed many political prisoners, especially during the Language Movement of 1952, the Six-Point Movement and the Liberation War of 1971.

Siddiqui said some of the objects used by renowned personalities are already in the possession of the jail authorities. The chair used by Bangabandhu during his days in jail and the birdcage of his favourite pet bird will be displayed in the museum, he added.

The room in which the national leader stayed is being especially preserved. The last Awami League government installed a sculpture of the leader in the room. This sculpture along with the items used by four national leaders -- AHM Qamruzzaman, Tajuddin Ahmad, Syed Nazrul Islam and Captain Mansur Ali -- who were killed inside the Dhaka Central Jail in November, 1975, will also be displayed at the museum.

The pieces of rope that were used to hang militant leaders Bangla Bhai and Shaikh Abdur Rahman and the religious books they read have already made their place at the museum.

Items used by VIP inmates, currently locked up on various corruption charges, are also on the display list of the museum.

The rope that was used by the British rulers to hang Mastarda Surya Sen to death for his rebellious role would be placed on display at Chittagong jail museum as the event took place there on January 8, 1934.

A British era edible oil extraction machine, locally called ghaani, would be brought in from Jamalpur district jail and placed on display at the Dhaka Central Jail museum. Prisoners serving rigorous imprisonments during that time operated such machines that were powered by cattle.

The museum will also showcase the evolution of uniforms worn by prison guards and outfits worn by convicts. Visitors would be able to see how turbans worn by the guards changed into hats over time, their khaki uniforms into colourful ones, shorts into trousers and batons into 303 rifles.

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Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Museum is a centre for collection and preservation of Zainul Abedin's art. As per government order for a nation-wide preservation of the artist's paintings and works, the museum was established in 1975. The site selected was at the north end of Mymensingh, the hometown of Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin, by the nature surrounded shadowy banks of the old Brahmaputra.

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Tribal Museum, Rangamati : The only Tribal Cultural Museum in the Hill Tracts region was established at Rangamati town in 1978 and it is run by the Tribal Cultural Institute. It preserves valuable objects and articles of different tribes depicting their socio-economic, cultural and historical tradition. These include typical tribal dresses, ornaments, arms and ammunitions, coins, statues made of wood, bronze and other metals, musical instruments, ivory products, handicrafts, paintings on tribal life etc.

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Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Museum is a centre for collection and preservation of Zainul Abedin's art. As per government order for a nation-wide preservation of the artist's paintings and works, the museum was established in 1975. The site selected was at the north end of Mymensingh, the hometown of Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin, by the nature surrounded shadowy banks of the old Brahmaputra.

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Shilpacharya is towards the top of my list of most favorite people.

Shilpacharya is towards the top of my list of most favorite people.

what? someone actually posted a comment in this thread? I thought this thread was invisible to everyone other than me....because I am the only one that ever posts in it.

Foundation stone of Shaheed Asad Museum laid

The Dhaka mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka along with the Dhaka University vice-chancellor, SMA Faiz, laid the foundation stone of Shaeed Asad Sharani Museum at Chankharpool crossing on Sunday. The museum will be constructed at the area adjacent to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital with an estimated cost of Tk 8 crore in memory of Shahid Asad, who was killed in police firing near Dhaka Medial College Hospital during the 1969 mass uprising. Members of the then Student Action Committee and leaders of the Dhaka University Central Students Union Tofail Ahmed, Khaled Mohammad Ali, Mostafa Jamal Haider, Dipa Datta, Ibrahim Khalil and Fakhrul Islam Munshi were also present at the programme. The total area of the three-storey museum will be 10,000 square feet. The tender to construct the museum will be floated within 15 days and the construction work will be completed by 18 months, Khoka said.

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I haven't posted much in in many threads... bet i almost always check all the threads.

Birshrestha Hamidur museum opens today

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Birshrestha Sipahi Hamidur Rahman (inset); Birshrestha Sipahi Hamidur Rahman Smriti Jadughar and Pathagar at Hamid Nagar village in Moheshpur upazila in Jhenidah awaits inauguration today.

The museum is set to open "Birshrestha Sipahi Hamidur Rahman Smriti Granthagar O Jadughar" at Hamidur's home village Khordo Khalishpur (recently named Hamid Nagar after the martyr's name) in Moheshpur upazila in Jhenidah today.

Maj Gen (Retd) CR Datta Bir Uttam, commander of Sector No 4 during the Liberation War, will inaugurate the library and museum complex built in memory of Hamidur Rahman.

Hamidur Rahman, while serving East Bengal Regiment in 1971, joined the Liberation War and borrowed martyrdom during a fight with the occupation forces on October 28.

He was later awarded the title Birshrestha, the highest gallantry award for his heroic role in the Liberation War.

Meanwhile, Hamidur's brother Hamzur Rahman said the plaque, containing the martyr's biography that has been set in front of the complex, bears wrong information about his brother's year of birth. Actually he was born in 1954, he said.

Besides, a conscious viewer would be taken aback to see wrong Bangla spelling of Birshrestha on the plaque.

It mentions his mother's name as Kaisunnesa whereas it is written as Kaidasunnesa in their home documents.

Furthermore, it has been inscribed bib (in Bangla spelling) on the plaque in place of bir.

Contacted, Moheshpur Upazila Nirbahi Officer Abi Abdullah said the year of birth was written following information from the ministry.

He admitted the mistakes regarding the name of the martyr's mother and a few spellings on the plaque.

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very tiny Bagerhat Museum is located beside the Khan Jahan Ali mosque, and it has quite a good collection of local antiques, mostly pottery and terra cotta.

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Bir Shreshtha Matiur MemorialMuseum opens today

The Bir Shrestha Matiur Rahman Memorial Museum and Library will be inaugurated today in his native village, Ramnagar, at Raipura in Narsingdi.

The complex, built at a cost of Tk 60 lakh, puts on the village a new look 37 years after Matiur, one of the seven war veterans awarded the highest gallantry award, died fighting for the independence of the country.

The district council constructed the complex on 12 decimals of land near his house at Raipura.

A three-day fair will also begin at the complex today.

The cultural affairs adviser, Rasheda K Chawdhury will inaugurate the programme. Former air vice marshal AK Khandakar, former Bangladesh Bank governor Khorshed Alam and local government secretary Sheikh Khurshid Alam will attend.

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Bir Shreshtha Matiur deserves it. My personal favorite hero.

Bir-Shrestho Mustafa Kamal museum inaugurated in Bhola

Bir-Shrestho Mustafa Kamal museum was inaugurated at Moutupi village in Sadar upazila of Bhola district Saturday.

Adviser for Local Govern-ment, Rural Development and Cooperatives, M Anwarul Iqbal, was the chief guest at the inaugural ceremony.

Maj. Gen. K M Safiullah Bir Uttam (rtd.), commander of sector-3 of Liberation War, formally inaugurated the museum cum library while Divisional Commissioner Harun Chowdhury presided over the ceremony.

The village has been formally named as Mustafa Kamal Nogor and a three-day book fair was also inaugurated on the occasion.

Local government engineering department constructed the Bir-Shrestho Mustafa Kamal museum cum library at a cost of Tk 6.29 million under a project in the native villages of language martyrs and Bir-Shresthos of Liberation War.

Bir-Shrestho Mustafa Kamal was born on December 16, 1947 at west Hajipur village of Daulatkhan Upazila under Bhola district and died in a battle with Pakistani occupation army at Dorouin village of Akhaura under Brahmanbaria district on April 18, 1971. The original birthplace of Mustafa Kamal had been eroded away by the Meghna River and later his family settled at Moutupi village.

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Bangladesh National Museum

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Not to be too off-topic but back in the day I have done my part in polluting the premises with roasted peanut shells -- the nuts shared with quite a few brightly chiffoned feathered friends (ahem :)).

On a more serious note -- if you actually go inside -- they've got a blockbuster collection of Palm-leaf texts (Talpatra-Poothi).

Not to be too off-topic but back in the day I have done my part in polluting the premises with roasted peanut shells -- the nuts shared with quite a few brightly chiffoned feathered friends (ahem :)).

Well that at least is a naturally-occuring item, and thus easily bio-degradable :) We need to introduce education on littering into school curricula...it simply does not exist in the consciousness of the general public today.

Never had the opportunity to visit the National Museum (thus far). How is it?

Never had the opportunity to visit the National Museum (thus far). How is it?

Not bad...they have a pretty decent collection...no Smithsonian mind you, but still good. However there is lots of room for improvement as far as presentation is concerned...some day with more money and perhaps either a more modern building or renovation of existing structure that should be easy enough. The top floor is mostly just reproductions of western paintings and not very worthwhile if you are short on time. I am basing this on my last trip which was about 15 years ago; don't know if things have changed since then.

In my book the 'Museum of natural History' in New York City takes the cake for exhibit quality -- though I have to admit -- I haven't been to all of the Smithsonian buildings except a few -- notably the one for 'Air and Space'.

In my book the 'Museum of natural History' in New York City takes the cake for exhibit quality -- though I have to admit -- I haven't been to all of the Smithsonian buildings except a few -- notably the one for 'Air and Space'.

The Smithsonian museum of natural history or whatever it is called is very comprehensive.

The Smithsonian museum of natural history or whatever it is called is very comprehensive

Good to know Towhid Bhai -- coming back to The National Museum in Dhaka -- the thing that impressed me the most were the exhibits about archeology (protnotattik nidarshan).

all the Smithsonian museums are impressive. I used to live in DC a few years back and had the opportunity to visit almost all of them.

Good to know Towhid Bhai -- coming back to The National Museum in Dhaka -- the thing that impressed me the most were the exhibits about archeology (protnotattik nidarshan).

Pal / Sen sculpture has unique features which are not difficult to distinguish from other dynasties, if you are familiar with them. I have seen pieces in American museums and can usually tell that they are Bangladeshi / Bengali even before I read the description.

Another great epoch in Bangladeshi / Bengali art was the period of the independent Sultans (1300s - 1500s), but sadly little survives from this time. I saw a photo of a painting from Gaur (part of a book on the history of Alexander) which I would rate with the best Persian miniatures.

I hope Dhaka builds world class museums on natural history and science some day. Here in America, from what I have read, the three best natural history museums are the ones in New York, Chicago, and Houston. Among science museums, the one in Chicago and the Air & Space in DC come to mind...and perhaps the one in San Francisco. We can also transform the folk art museum in Sonargaon into a world class facility...New Delhi has an excellent example. We can learn from all these places.

One of my favorite museum designs is the little Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. This was designed by Louis Kahn...the same guy who designed our Parliament. If any day they replace the current building at Shahbagh, I think an expanded version of Kimbell would be perfect a National Gallery of Art...especially if they built it in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar. On the topic of a National Gallery...I think the govt (when funds are available) should make a concerted effort to collect paintings of our greatest artists which are currently in the hands of private (often corrupt) individuals. A few years ago in Dhaka I saw an outstanding exhibit of Bangladeshi / West Bengali art from the private collection of one well known gunda.

100 years of Bangladesh National Museum
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To celebrate the 100 years of Bangladesh National Museum (BNM), the museum has arranged an eight-month long special programme. The programme features exhibitions, discussion, seminar and more.

As part of the celebration, BNM has arranged two theme- based exhibitions, an improvement of information and digital activities of the museum and modernisation of the museum's security services and more.Read more (http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=265843)