The Bangladesh National Museum in Shahbag, Dhaka, is the national repository of the country's cultural and historical artifacts. It began as the Dhaka Museum, established on March 20, 1913, formally inaugurated on August 7, 1913 and opened to the public on August 25, 1914. It first occupied a room in the old Secretariat building and later the Nimtali Baroduari. The article names no architect or style for the present building. Its Shahbagh site was approved in December 1975, and the new building opened to the public on November 17, 1983.
After 1971 it was reorganized as the Bangladesh National Museum. Its collection reached 91,287 artifacts by 2017. The first floor has 22 rooms of natural history displays, and the second floor covers the Language Movement and the Liberation War.
Adult entry is Tk 40, and Tk 500 for foreigners. The article's visitor figures conflict.
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