Virtual Bangabandhu Memorial Museum to go online soon

The Bangabandhu Memorial Museum will soon have a virtual version online, according to the curator of the museum. “Most of our work is complete or near completion,” said Curator of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum Nazrul Islam Khan. This will be the second virtual museum in Bangladesh, after the Bangladesh National Museum was virtually launched on April 25. Virtually, a visitor can get up close and personal to objects at the museum that most people cannot do, such as the staircase where the Father of the Nation was shot and killed. They can also see Bangabandhu’s bedroom where the calender still shows the page for August 1975. The room is still kept the way it was the day he died, with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s belongings like his transistor, three telephones, his armchair and bed. The house where the entire family was killed on August 15, 1975 is perfectly preserved and has been open to the public as a memorial museum since 1994. With the help of technology, people from around the world can now get a better more intimate look at how the Father of the Nation lived and also how he was killed in that house. The private quarters of the prime minister and her sister, the only surviving members of the family are however inaccessible to the public both at the physical and virtual museum. The drawing room, dining room, Bangabandhu’s study and the bedrooms of the rest of the family is open to the public, with some scenes that might to be too graphic for young eyes, such as the bloodied floors and walls of the house where the family was gunned down. The Museum is currently open to all from 10am to 5pm six days a week, except Wednesdays.