Visit to Bangladesh National Museum

 

Visit to Bangladesh National Museum

A museum is a building where objects of historical, scientific or artistic interest are kept. It is a place where the things of aged old tradition are stored to display for the public. The official name of the museum of Bangladesh is Bangladesh National Museum. It is located on the South side of Bangabondhu Sheikh Muzib Medical University at Shahbag area in Dhaka. The present National Museum first came to light as Dhaka Museum. In the year 1913 Lord Kar Mikel, the then Governor of Bengal, inaugurated this museum in a room of Dhaka Medical College. In the year 1970, Pakistan government changed the format of Dhaka Museum Committee. They circulated the Dhaka Museum Board of Trustees Ordinance. They also made it a constitutional Institution. Afterwards, during 1983, the government of Bangladesh declared the museum as Bangladesh National Museum. It is one of the largest museums in South Asia. This museum preserves the symbols of all ages that Bangladesh passed through, from prehistory to the present time. Once I along with some friends made a plan to pay a visit to the museum. We bought tickets and entered into the museum. The museum maintains a schedule for the visitors. Accordingly, it is open for all throughout the week except Thursday. We saw a lot of people there. Generally much crowd is seen here on weekly holidays and National days. It has three different hours for three seasons. The names of the seasons are summer, winter and the month of Holy Ramadan. It is devoted to archaeology (cÖZœwe`¨v), classical, decorative and contemporary (mgmvgwqK) art, history, natural history, ethnography (gvbeRvwZi ˆeÁvwbK weeiY) and world civilization.