Mymensingh Museum

Mymensingh Museum is located in Zamidar Madan Babu’s garden house at Amrita Babu Road in Mymensingh town. The museum is contributing as a major artifacts collection in the Mymensingh region. There are many old items including local architecture, statues, iron accessories, handicrafts, inscriptions and commercial goods of Mymensingh district exhibited in the museum. Most of the things have been collected from different house of Zamidars of Mymensingh area. A total of 214 objects have been preserved in three rooms of the museum. The museum was established in 1969 by the then Deputy Commissioner of Mymensingh. Initially Mymensingh municipality used to supervise it, but in 1989, the museum was brought under the Department of Bangladesh Archeology.

The preserved objects include manuscripts and different types of coins. Most of the items have not been displayed due to lack of exhibition boxes. There is also a mummy of Peacock which was donated by Mymensingh Medical College. There are also stone vases, compasses, ancient clocks, ornaments, pottery, weaving machines, flower vases, wax horses, iron racks and sporting goods, carved sculptures collected from the house of Muktagacha zamidar house has been displayed here. There are also few natural history items including tiger head, two deer head, and a wild bull head can be found here. Some objects has been collected and displayed here from the Gauripur zamidar palace including elephant heads, sofa sets, Italian statues and tools used in hunting. Besides, there are many rural paintings in the museum.

Besides this museum, there are three more museums listed in Mymensingh. There's also twelve attractions listed in this district in other categories. You will find the exact location of Mymensingh Museum on the map above.