The Supreme Court is set to inaugurate a museum of its own today with some furniture and other objects which no one can trace back to their historic value.
Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain will open the museum in a one-storey building in the administrative area of the Supreme Court at 4:30pm.
The museum was found to be full of dust yesterday afternoon – the antique objects littered on the floor and a few workers painting the room with the exhibits uncovered.
The antiques included two decorated wooden chairs, a wooden couch, two wooden tables, three wall clocks, an old typewriter and a silver trophy.
SM Kuddus Zaman, acting registrar of the Supreme Court, told the Dhaka Tribune over phone that he did not know about the details of the furniture.
Deputy Registrar 1 Md Nazrul Islam said the museum aimed at presenting a concept of the judicial system’s history. He said the objects had been salvaged from stores and others places of the SC.
“The furniture furniture was used by judges,” he said; but when asked which objects belonged to whom and when, he said they did not know these details.
The Supreme Court authority has planned to open the museum for students first.
Nazrul, however, could not say how students would learn the history if the exhibits did not include any labels.
“We are trying to find out the history of each of the objects,” the deputy register said.
The Supreme Court authority has formed a five-member committee headed by Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana, and has written to the former chief justice and other judges as well as senior lawyers to enrich the museum by donating historical objects, if they have any.
