Museum and gallery, Chattogram
Ethnological Museumজাতিতাত্ত্বিক জাদুঘর
- Time needed
- An hour.
- Cost
- A small entry ticket.
The country's only ethnological museum, at Agrabad: galleries of dress, tools, houses and crafts of the Chakma, Marma, Garo, Santal, Khasi and other communities, open since 1974.
Plan your visit
- Opening
- Closed on Thursdays and government holidays; mornings to late afternoon otherwise, with a Friday break for prayers.
At a glance
- Opened
- 1974 (established 1965)
- Where
- Agrabad, Chattogram
About
Set up in 1965 and opened to the public in 1974, the museum at Agrabad gives a room each to the peoples of the hills and plains: the Chakma, Marma, Tripura, Mro, Bawm and Khumi of the Hill Tracts, the Garo and Hajong of the north, the Santal of the north-west, and others, with their dress, jewellery, musical instruments, looms, baskets and models of houses. Two rooms were added in the 1980s and 1990s, and in 1996 a gallery of Bangali folk life joined them, so the museum now covers the whole country's communities, with a few cases on peoples of neighbouring countries.
It is small, old-fashioned and quietly excellent, the best single hour's introduction to who lives in the south-east before you go up into the hills. The garden has a few sculptures and old trees.
Getting there: In Agrabad, a short CNG ride from the station or GEC.
Things to do
- Walk the galleries community by community, then the Bangali folk gallery.
Good to know
- Photography inside needs permission at the desk.
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