Bangladesh National Museum has opened a permanent hub, ‘Center for Art History and Museology’, aiming to train museum professionals and students on museology.
National Museum Chairman Professor Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique inaugurated the centre, which is to run regularly two 15-day certificate courses in a year at the initial stage, according to BSS.
“The centre has emerged today as a pioneering institution in the field of art history and museology,” said Siddique, who is also the Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) chairman and former Dhaka University vice-chancellor.
He noted that currently no functional institution or programme was there in the country to run such a study programme despite having over 400 museums, galleries and archives in the country.
Siddique also opened the premier certificate course of the Centre to mark its inauguration while National Museum’s director general Md Kamruzzaman chaired the function, addressed as well by its secretary Gazi Md Wali-ul-Haq.
According to the statement, the National Museum has included the centre in its organisational structure to create skilled staff and manpower for better management of the facility.
Kamruzzaman told the function that the course would provide opportunities to learn some fundamental things related to museology alongside art history which included concepts of civilisation, arts of different civilisations, artefact collection and management, documentation, preservation, display and museum management.
“We have plans to launch advanced courses related to museums studies under this centre,” he said.
