Divisional Museum

Bangladesh


If you’ve got some time to kill before a bus or flight departure, the small collection of archaeological objects garnered from around Bagerhat and on display at this government museum should help you pass half-an-hour or so. Exhibits are a bit haphazard, and the labelling (much of it in Bengali) is not uniform.


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