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Liberation War Museum needs more space to house mementos
The Liberation War Museum, the world's only private museum of its kind, founded 25 years after independence will celebrate its eighth anniversary today, mark-“’ ing it with a weeklong programmetill March 28.
"Eight of us, founded the museum eight years ago in recognition of the pains and sacrifices of all freedom fighters. Over the years we have received overwhelming support from the people," said Dr Sarwar Ali, member secretary of the Muktijudddha Smriti Trust (MST).
"Although it is the duty of the
state to build liberalion war museums, as is done in other countries, we decided to establish it ourselves as we did not have such a museum even two and a half decades after liberation," he added.
In 1995 cultural activists Aly Zaker, Dr Sarwar Ali, Asaduzzman Noor, Rabiul Hussain, Sara Zaker, Ziauddin Tarek Ali, Mofidul Hoque and Akku Chowdhury nurtured the idea of establishing an archive to preserve some objects of the liberation war, funding the trust on their own. They launched the museum on March 22, 1996 in a three-storey house on 12 bighas at Segun Bagicha.
The displays are rare photographsandartefacts.
"We have collected 10,721 momentos of which only 1,304 are displayed in six galleries while 360 could be seen at a mobile museum. The building cannot house all the items," said Dr. Ali.
The epitaph on a stone at the entrance where the eternal flame stands reads: "In the name of the moon and sun in the sky, of blood-stained soil of Bengladesh we vow not to forget any of our martyrs, any event of our history".
Of the three galleries on the first floor the first displays the heritage, culture and traditions of Bengal along with the struggle
against colonial rule, the second -- a chronichistoryofthe Pakistani regime and resistance to it, while the third — relics of the noncooperation movement of March 1971, tire genocide, resistance, declaration of independence and the plight of the refugees.
Three galleries on the second floor display documents and materials showing various aspects of people's resistance, international support, killing of ihtellectuals by Pakistan Army and its collaborators and finally thevictoryofBengladesh.
The museum has so far drawn 2,66,247 visitors in its span of 416 weeks, mostly school children according to its co-ordinator,
Dilip Singh.
"More than 50 thousand students from 274 schools have already visited the museum since February 1997", said Dilip.
Monira Islam, a seventh grader commented that the museum projected much information about the liberation war. She was admiring the cyclostyle machine invented during that time by freedom fighter Dr Sultan Salauddin Ahmed with locally available spare-parts. The prints made were distributed throughout Dhaka during the war.
The mobile mini-museum goes to schools and courts in different regions and accordingly
54 zillas and 31 cities have been touched by the mobile museum.
MST in November 1999, with the help of the army excavated two killing fields at Jalladkhana and Muslim Bazar in Mirpur, bringing out more than 80 skulls and 5,000 bones.
The authorities plan to buy its own land to house the museum.
"Responding to the initiative, many people have donated mementoes and funds. We have collected more than Tk 2 crore by way of lotteries last year, but we need more," DrAli added.
The Liberation War Museum is open Monday through Saturday from 10.30 am to 6.30 pm. Entry fee isTk3 only.