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Established
as Dhaka Museum in 1913 A.D. It has been renamed
as the National Museum and was shifted to its new
building at Shabag in 1983. It is a four storied building and has forty
galleries under four departments, namely- (1) Natural History (2) History and
classical Art (3) Ethnography and Decorative art and (4) Contemporary art and
World Civilization. The museum contains a large number of interesting
collection including sculptures and paintings of the Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim
periods. It also has rich collection of old coins, metal images, books on art,
ivory and silver filigree works, textiles including the world famous muslin
fabric, embroidered quilt(Nakshi Kantha), arms and ammunitions of the bygone
warriors, varieties of fine handicrafts and models of the village and town
life, contemporary paintings and sculptures. Above all, the valuable articles
of the heroic liberation war of Bangladesh
are also there. Open- Saturday-Wednesday, 10.00 a.m-7.00p.m Thursday: Closed.
Entrance Fee Ta:2.00 Phone:880-2-8619397-99.
National Museum
Mission: Bangladesh National depository establishes a link between the vanishing past and also the vivacious gift with a read to making sure the acquisition and advancement of information for intellectual growth, national pride and waking up, social progress, and international harmony, bushed the service of the general public and in accordance with skilled standards.
National Museum Vision: One of the foremost crucial and tough tasks of the deposit nowadays is to
speak a country's natural and cultural heritage in an exceedingly approach that
illuminates the modern state of affairs. Keeping this in sight, East Pakistan
National deposit seeks to increase the perception of culture within the widest
social science sense, linking our contemporary life to the eternal inventive
search of man on the one hand and therefore the material world--both natural
and man-made--on the opposite to assist the guests discover a purpose that's
common to all or any.