Bangladesh National Museum
বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় জাদুঘর | |
Former name | Dacca Museum |
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| Established | 20 March 1913 |
| Location | Shahbag, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Coordinates | 23°44.25′N 90°23.67′E / 23.73750°N 90.39450°E |
| Visitors | c. 15 million (including c. 1.2 million foreigners) per year |
| Director | Md. Kamruzzaman |
| Website | bangladeshmuseum |
The Bangladesh National Museum (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় জাদুঘর, romanized: Bānlādēśa jātīẏa jādughara), is the national museum of Bangladesh. The museum is well organized and displays have been housed chronologically in several departments like department of ethnography and decorative art, department of history and classical art, department of natural history, and department of contemporary and world civilization. The museum also has a rich conservation laboratory. Nalini Kanta Bhattasali served as the first curator of the museum during 1914–1947.