The exterior of 'Bangladesh Folk Art & Crafts Museum'.

This museum is one of the best places to learn about the ancient lifestyle of Bangle. Handicrafts of the illiterate artists of the neglected villages of Bangladesh, daily use products of public life have been placed here. In these artifacts, the traditional folk art of ancient Bengal flourished.

The collection is huge, you will get to see a whole lot of showcases consisting of the collections in the four-story building. It takes a whole day to take a look around the place.

Today I'm going to share with you the exterior of the building. It's beautiful inside and out. Let's see.

This is what the surroundings look like. There are a few statues in front of the building and a floral garden. As it's part of the Bangladesh folk and craft museum so there's a separate building as well, just in front of this red bricked building which also displays many folks and crafts from the ancient bangle.

Bullock cart

This used to be a very popular vehicle in ancient bangle. Eben in our childhood, we hopped up in the cart a few times when visited our grandparent's farm.

Folk Art and Craft Museum is named after our famous painter Zainul Abedin. This place is located in Sonargaon, not far from the capital, and was established on March 12, 1975. Later in 1981, artist Zainul Abedin tried to build this museum in an open-air environment in a complex of 150 bighas under the open sky to highlight the artistic activities of the common people of Bangladesh.

The museum is enriched with many wood carvings, handicrafts, tapestries, and masks, artifacts based on tribal life, rural folk life environment, folk musical instruments and terracotta artifacts, copper-cast-brass artifacts, iron artifacts, folk ornaments, and many more.

This huge temporary paper figure of the peacock was so eye catchy!

I have heard that this place is used as an open space for different programs and the peacock is there to enhance the beauty, it's called the 'peacock open stage'. I quite like the idea.

This is what the exterior of the museum looks like.

Outside these two buildings, there is a library, documentation center, seminar hall, canteen, village garden and variety of trees, a lake, and much more. The whole place is huge and if you take a day tour there, you can really have a deep knowledge of our culture, art, and overall our history.

And as there were fishing and boating activities available, local food stalls and craft shops are also rich there so the touring would be adventurous.

I would love to visit the place anytime I get the time & opportunity.

Have a good day, everyone.