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Closing ceremony of 100th anniversary of National Museum

Staff Correspondent
The closing ceremony of the celebration marking the 100th founding anniversary of Bangladesh National Museum (BNM) was held at the main auditorium of the museum on December 22.
Speaker of the Parliament Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury inaugurated the event as chief guest. She called upon all, including students, to visit the National Museum to acquire knowledge about the country's heritage and culture. She stressed on the importance of a museum for the identity of a nation.
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu as special guest and Cultural Affairs Secretary, Dr. Ranjit Kumar Biswas were present as honorable guest.
The guests expressed that museums provide an interactive experience of getting up close to things we usually only see in books, newspapers or in the electronic media. Museums are also an important issue in attracting tourists to a country' or any particular area. For many people undertaking research, museums provide
an incomparable wealth of information and resources for scholars and highly trained professionals of any country.
M Azizur Rahman, president of Bangladesh National Museum's Board of Trustees presided over the programme. Prokash Chandra Das, director general of Bangladesh National Museum delivered the welcome speech.
Jahangir Hussain, keeper of BNM on the two-year long celebrations said, "It was an especial opportunity for the visitors to enjoy our rare collections which are normally preserved in store due to lack of space." He urged the youth and school and college going students to visit the exhibition that presences the country's century-old museum history and tradition.
As part of the concluding ceremony, the museum has arranged a duet exhibition, featuring the works of Zainul Abedin and Quamrul Hassan at the Nalini Kanta Bhattashali Gallery of the museum. About 100 works are on display at the exhibition. The medium includes water, ink, oil, gouache and more. At the exhibition, Zainul works highlight lush
greenery, riverine beauty of the Brahmaputra and its rustic surroundings. A number of Famine Sketch recalls the famine days of 1943. The painter was mainly recognised for portraying this period of work.
Quamrul Hassan was an influential artist working in almost all media. At the
exhibition, his works delineated the rural Bengal and its people. He portrayed figures, natural objects, trees, snakes, owls, as well as landscape where we can see his passion about portraying rural scenic beauty and its untainted beauty. Pastoral women and their dilemma is also a recurrent theme at the exhibition.