The Varendra Research Museum houses a one-of-a-kind Bengali art collection that is rich in history, antiquity, rarity, and aesthetic specimens. This Museum in Rajshahi City is Bangladesh’s oldest museum. The Varendra Research Society and Museum is the premier institution of its kind in the country as well as one of the earlier museum in the Indian Subcontinent. It is a leading museum of the South-East Asia. Three eminent intellectuals Kumar Sarat Kumar Ray (1876-1945), Akshay Kumar Maitra (1861-1930) and Rama Prasad Chanda (1873-1942) founded the museum in 1910 as its principal promoters, patrons, leaders and operators on a purely private initiative without any government patronage.
The land of Varendra was one of the most flourished territories of ancient Bengal. There are many more invaluable archaeological ruins and art-evidences which are signs of human settlement scattered in this area.
So, far collecting, preserving and displaying the source materials – archaeological and literary – for study and research in the history , art and architecture of ancient and medieval Bengal in general and Varendra region in particular – the Varendra Research Museum was established. It is a leading Museum of the South-East Asia.
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