DHAKA, Dec 20, 2022 (BSS) – Bangladesh National Museum today opened a permanent hub namely ‘Center for Art History and Museology’, aiming to train museum professionals and students on museology, the facility said in a statement.

   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 initial statge.

   “The center has emerged today as a pioneering institution in the field of art history and museolgy,” 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 study programme though the government or the private entities currently run over 400 museums, galleries and archives.

   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 trainees opportunities to learn some fundamental things related to museology alongside art history which included concepts of civilisation, arts of different civilisations, artifacts collection and management, documentation, preservation, display and museum management.
 
   “We have plans to launch advanced courses related to museums studies under this center,” he said.