National_Museum-1 Bangladesh National Museum is located in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. It was established on March 20, 1913, and was officially inaugurated on August 8, 1913. It was given the status of National Museum on 16 November 1983. The museum is located near Shahbagh Junction near PG Hospital, Ramna Park and Institute of Fine Arts. There are separate exhibitions on anthropology, fine arts, history, nature and modern and world-civilization. There is also a museum here. The need to establish a museum in this country was first highlighted in The Dhaka News on 1 November 1857. On 20 March 1913, the museum started functioning in the then Secretariat (now Dhaka Medical) with a fund of two thousand rupees. The Dhaka Museum was inaugurated by Lord Carmichael, the then Governor of Bengal, in a room of the then Secretariat. The journey of Dhaka Museum started on 6 August 1913. The museum was opened to the public on August 25, 1914. N Gupta was the first temporary curator of the Dhaka Museum. The first curator was Nalinikanta Bhattasali. The British government established a museum in this country as compensation for the abrogation of the Partition of Bengal. A state-of-the-art large-scale building for the Bangladesh National Museum was inaugurated in the Shahbagh area on 16 November 1973. The four-storey building, built on eight acres of land, has 43 galleries across three floors. The sections of the National Museum are: - History and classical art Ethnography and the art of decoration Contemporary art and world civilization Department of Natural History Conservation Laboratory Museums under control Museums in different parts of the country are being run under the control of Bangladesh National Museum. They are: - Ahsan Manzil Museum, Dhaka. Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Museum, Mymensingh. Osmani Museum, Sylhet. Zia Memorial Museum, Chittagong. How to get there: The National Museum can be reached by any bus from Gulista, Motijheel, Shahbag, Gabtali, Mirpur or Tongi to Shahbag.