Lokayan Life Diversity Museum, Bangladesh
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Permanent collections
The Lokayan Life Diversity Museum includes the following galleries and collections:- River Gallery: open to the visitors in 2016, it preserves water of almost all the rivers from Bangladesh. Many objects of river-centric different occupations are also displayed here. Moreover, this gallery has a rich collection of objects, inventory of rivers, information of boats, boat festivals, bhatiali song and rural folk music composed out of love for river and nature. Information on char, flood, fisheries, birds, is also presented here.
- Ethnic Minority People Living in Plain Land: This gallery is dedicated to the ethnic minorities of plain land. Lokayan has demonstrated their livelihood, culture, dwelling, dress, food habit, occupations, festivals and other social events.
- Grassroots Folk Gallery: This gallery, open in 2006, includes collections related to agricultural utensils, herbal medicines and treatments, music instruments, coins, jewellery, ornaments, religious objects, sports and recreational materials, household objects, marriage ceremony items, pottery, letters, crafts, etc.
- Liberation War Gallery: This gallery is divided into different corners named Old Age, Middle Age, 1757-1947, 1947-1971 and exclusively Nine Month of Independence. Memoirs of different wars as well as of liberation war are preserved here with due honor. The main objective of Liberation War Gallery is to present the appropriate history of Liberation War through the demonstration of related films and features, an audiovisual library and building an open stage and a modernized auditorium.
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