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Retired fighters, trainers and helicopters parked on open lawns beside the old airport — and you can climb into some of them.
Agargaon, Dhaka
Monday – Thursday: 2:00 PM – 8:00 PM
From ৳25
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The country's only currency museum: notes and coins from around 200 countries, and Bangladeshi money since 1972. Free to enter.
Mirpur-2, Dhaka
Saturday – Wednesday: 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Free entry
DetailsThe country's only ethnological museum: the daily life of some 25 of Bangladesh's ethnic communities, in Agrabad — and a piece of the Berlin Wall.
Agrabad, Chattogram
Monday – Saturday: Open — times not published, call ahead
From ৳5
DetailsThe ancestral home of General M A G Osmani, commander-in-chief of the Bangladesh forces in 1971, kept as a museum by the National Museum.
Dhopa Dighir Par, Sylhet
Saturday – Wednesday: 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM
From ৳20
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The Department of Archaeology's museum at Shib Bari, opened in 1998: finds from Bharat Bhayna, Barabazar and Bagerhat, sculpture and Mughal coins.
Sonadanga, Khulna
Tuesday – Saturday: Daytime — times vary by season, check locally
From ৳20
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The family home of Rabindranath Tagore's wife Mrinalini Devi in Phultala, about 19 km from Khulna — now a small museum to the poet.
Phultala, Khulna
Tuesday – Saturday: Daytime — times vary by season, check locally
From ৳10
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A museum of the great painter Zainul Abedin in a colonial house on the Old Brahmaputra, set up in 1975 — a branch of the National Museum.
Shaheb Quarter, Mymensingh
Saturday – Wednesday: 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM
From ৳20
DetailsA small museum on A. K. Fazlul Huq's family homestead at Chakhar: his photographs, letters, furniture and the story of his career.
Chakhar, Banaripara, Barishal
Tuesday – Saturday: Daytime — times vary by season, check locally
From ৳10
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The site museum beside Shalban Vihara: bronze Buddhas, stone sculpture, gold coins, terracotta plaques and a great bronze bell from the Mainamati ruins.
Kotbari, Cumilla
Tuesday – Saturday: Daytime — times vary by season, check locally
From ৳20
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