The Bangladesh National Museum formerly established on 20 March 1913, although under another name, and formally inaugurated on 7 August 1913, was accorded the status of the national museum of Bangladesh on 17 November 1983. It is positioned Shahbag, Dhaka. The museum is well structured and displays have been housed in several departments like department of ethnography and decorative art, department of history and classical art, department of natural history, and department of contemporary and world civilization. The museum also has a maintenance laboratory.

The Liberation War Museum is a museum in Segunbagicha, Dhaka, and the capital of Bangladesh that commemorates the Bangladesh Liberation War, which led to the independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan. A museum opened on 22 March 1996, and has more than 10,000 artifacts and exhibits on display in the museum or stored in its records. A major section records the events of the Language Movement for the gratitude of the Bengali language in Pakistan, which is regarded as the beginning of the movement for Bangladesh’s independence. Several galleries highlight the building sectional disagreement between West Pakistan and Bangladesh, the rise of Bengali nationalist leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the events of 1971, when the deferment by Pakistan’s military ruler Gen. Yahya Khan of the convening of the National Assembly of Pakistan, in which Sheikh Mujib’s Awami League had won a majority, led to the call for the independence of Bangladesh. The coverage of the liberation war includes the training and operations of the Mukti Bahini, the guerrilla army built by the Awami League to oppose Pakistani forces. Several galleries focus on the genocide carried out by the Pakistani army against the Bengali population, with Operation Searchlight targeting Bengali intellectuals, students, Hindus and Awami League leaders, and the compassionate crisis created with the pouring of an estimated ten million refugees into neighboring India.

Osmany Museum is a museum in Sylhet, Bangladesh. The ancestors’ home of Bangabir General M A G Osmany, the Commander-in-Chief of Bangladesh Forces has been altered in to today’s famous “Osmany Museum”. This will surely act as a stimulus to the future generations. The foundation stone was laid on 16 February 1985 and it was inaugurated on 4 March 1987 by the then president of Bangladesh H M Ershad.

Zainul Abedin Sangrahashala is an art museum in Mymensingh, Bangladesh. Established in 1975, it contains the collections of the artist Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin. The art gallery was established in Mymensingh as this is where the artist used up his early days. Abedin, a pioneer of the country’s modern art movement, created works of art on subject matters such as the Bengal famine of 1943 and the peoples’ independence. The museum is located in the area of Shaheeb Quarter Park on the bank of the Old Bramaputra River.

Varendra Museum is a museum, research center and popular visitor fascination located at the heart of Rajshahi town and maintained by Rajshahi University in Bangladesh. Varendra Museum was the first museum to be established in erstwhile East Bengal in 1910. The museum started out as the collection for Varendra Anushandhan Samiti or Varendra Investigation Society and got its current name in 1919. The Rajahs of Rajshahi and Natore, notably Prince Sharat Kumar Ray, donated their personal collections to Varendra Museum. Varendra refers to an ancient janapada roughly corresponding to modern northern Bangladesh. Excavation at Sompur Bihara was started by the society along with Calcutta University in 1923. In 1964, the museum became a part of Rajshahi University.

The Fish Museum & Biodiversity Center, also known as FMBC, is located in Mymensingh, Bangladesh in a space provided by Bangladesh Agricultural University. The Center, whose goal is to encourage sustainable fishing, has been developed in partnership with Stirling University.