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Museum and galleryMoheen Reeyad · CC BY-SA 4.0

Ethnological Museum

Chattogram

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.

Museum and galleryAashaa · CC BY-SA 4.0

Suchitra Sen's House

Pabna

The house in Pabna town where Suchitra Sen, the great star of Bengali cinema, grew up, now kept as a small memorial museum.

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Fish Museum & Biodiversity Centre

Mymensingh

One of the largest fish collections in the region, on the agricultural university's campus.

Museum and galleryTopumym · CC BY-SA 4.0

Mymensingh Museum

Mymensingh

Three rooms of treasures from the district's zamindar palaces, in Madan Babu's old garden house.

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Nazrul Smriti Kendra, Kazir Shimla

Mymensingh

The Darogabari, home of the police officer who brought the boy Nazrul to Trishal in 1914, now a memorial centre.

Museum and galleryHermitage17 · Public domain

Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Sangrahashala

Mymensingh

The museum of Bangladesh's great painter, in a riverside park on the Brahmaputra where he learned to draw.

Museum and galleryAfifa Afrin · CC BY-SA 3.0

Mainamati Museum

Cumilla

The site museum beside Shalban Vihara: bronze Buddhas, terracotta plaques, copper plates, coins and pottery from the Mainamati digs, with a model of the whole ridge.

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S M Sultan Memorial Museum

Narail

The home and memorial museum of the painter S M Sultan (1923–1994) at Machimdia on the Chitra, with his paintings, belongings and his grave in the grounds.

Museum and galleryMahbub Hossain Shaheed (mahosha) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Ahsan Manzil

Dhaka

The pink palace of the Nawabs of Dhaka on the Buriganga, with its tall dome and grand river stair, now a museum of the family and the city in the 19th century.

Museum and galleryMohammad Fazla Rabbe · CC BY-SA 3.0

Liberation War Museum

Dhaka

A museum at Agargaon that tells the story of the 1971 war through documents, objects and the personal belongings of those who fought and died.

Museum and galleryShariful iea · CC BY-SA 4.0

Bangladesh National Museum

Dhaka

The country's largest museum at Shahbag: sculpture, coins, textiles, natural history and the Liberation War over four floors.

Museum and galleryasik mahbub · CC BY-SA 4.0

Sagardari, Madhusudan Dutt's House

Jashore

The birthplace of the poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt on the Kapotaksha at Sagardari, Keshabpur: the family house, its pond and grounds, kept as a memorial with a small collection.

Museum and gallerySabbirAbeir (md sabbir) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Jagadish Chandra Bose Memorial Museum

Munshiganj

The family home of the scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose at Rarikhal in Sreenagar, kept as a small museum in leafy grounds.

Museum and galleryMasum-al-hasan · CC BY-SA 4.0

Mahasthan Archaeological Museum

Bogura

The site museum beside the citadel, opened in 1967, with terracotta, coins, sculpture and inscriptions from Mahasthangarh and other old sites of the north.

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Gandhi Ashram and Freedom Struggle Museum

Jamalpur

An ashram founded in 1934 on the Jhinai river at Kapashatia, Melandaha, where villagers spun khadi and freedom fighters met; wrecked in 1948, revived as a small museum of the independence years.

Museum and galleryDavid Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada · CC BY 2.0

Khulna Divisional Museum

Khulna

A museum near Shib Bari crossing, founded in 1998, holding finds from excavations across the division, including Barobazar and Bharat Bhayna.

Museum and galleryBellayet · CC BY-SA 3.0

Hason Raja Museum

Sunamganj

The family home of the mystic poet Hason Raja (1854–1922) in Sunamganj town, now a small museum of his belongings and songs.

Museum and gallerymyself · Public domain

Poet Jasimuddin's House

Faridpur

The family home of Jasimuddin (1903–1976), the Palli Kabi, at Ambikapur near Faridpur town, with a small museum and his grave.

Museum and galleryNajmul Huda · CC BY-SA 4.0

Patisar Rabindra Kachari Bari

Naogaon

The Tagore family's estate office on the Nagar river at Atrai, where Rabindranath came from 1890 to run the Kaligram estate and wrote poems, stories and letters: now a protected building and small museum.

Museum and gallerySharminsumona · CC BY-SA 4.0

Folk Arts and Crafts Museum

Narayanganj

The national folk art museum in Sardar Bari, an old mansion in wide grounds with ponds, set up at the urging of the painter Zainul Abedin.

Museum and galleryMoniruzzaman Masum · CC BY-SA 4.0

Tajhat Palace

Rangpur

A white marble-stepped zamindar palace from the early twentieth century on the edge of Rangpur, now the Rangpur museum, with a domed roof and a pond and lawns in front.

Museum and galleryNahid.rajbd · CC BY-SA 4.0

Varendra Research Museum

Rajshahi

The first museum in what is now Bangladesh, opened in 1910 and run today by the University of Rajshahi: stone sculpture, terracotta, coins and inscriptions from the old Varendra region.

Museum and galleryAminul joy · CC BY-SA 4.0

Bagerhat Museum

Bagerhat

A small archaeology museum beside the Sixty Dome Mosque: inscriptions, pottery, terracotta and the story of Khalifatabad in three galleries.

Museum and galleryBhoboghure · CC BY 4.0

Tribal Cultural Academy, Birishiri

Netrokona

A government academy founded in 1977 to keep the languages, dress, songs and dances of the Garo, Hajong, Koch, Banai, Dalu and Mandi communities of greater Mymensingh; a small museum, a library and a stage for their festivals.