UNESCO Dhaka

Dinajpur Museum is one of the few museums which have been developed by community initiatives in Bangladesh. It possesses various categories of objects including some rare and interesting pieces of sculptures which testify to the Eastern Indian School of Art in Post-6th century ACE. The rich collection makes this museum a very important repository of tangible heritage of this region. Like many other museums, it did not have a systematically developed catalogue of the collected and displayed objects. The absence of a catalogue informed by the recent data structures about the objects makes the collection of this museum vulnerable to loss and theft.

Under these circumstances, with the funding of UNESCO, Dhaka Office as a part of their mandate to safeguard Cultural Heritage, a team of researchers with the coordination of Swadhin Sen, Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, Jahangirnagar University have developed the  digital catalogue of the museum objects for the first time in Bangladesh in 2007. The software of digital database, which is the first in its kind in Bangladesh, was designed by Ziaul Bashar and the team.

You can browse the objects in Dinajpur Museum at http://museum.unescodhaka.org.