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The Liberation War Museum

5 Segun Bagicha
Dhaka -- 1000
Bangladesh

Tel: 880 2 955 9091
Fax: 880 2 955 9092
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Asian Sites of Conscience Network

Dialogues for Democracy

The Liberation War Museum, along with all Coalition member sites, runs Dialogues for Democracy - programs for visitors to draw connection between the past and the present by using histories of sites to inspect new conversations and actions pressing contemporary issues.

Other Programs

The primary focus of the Liberation War Museum is to educate younger generations with the history of independence, with the aim to shore pride for their motherland and imbue a spirit of patriotism and tolerance.

Outreach Program
School students come to visit the Museum in groups, watch a video on the struggle for Bangladeshi independence, participate in a quiz program and attend an interactive dialogue. From 1997 through June 2004, 60,605 students from 274 schools have participated in this program.  

Freedom Festival
Outreach participants meet annually at a gala Freedom Festival attended by government, public leaders and cultural personalities. In three years (2001-2004), an estimated 15,000 people have attended.

Mobile Museum
A school bus mounted with 360 photographs and objects, mini-museum style, travels all across the country. Since its inception in 2001, 454,592 visitors from 54 district towns and have visited the Mobile Museum (as of March 2004).

Combined Outreach/Mobile Museum Expanded Program
Under the project entitled “Human Rights and Peace Education for Students in Light of the History of the Liberation War,” the re-designed Mobile Museum holds exhibitions and interactive meetings with school students throughout the country. The students are encouraged to collect eye-witness accounts of the events of 1971 and to send it to the Liberation War Museum for inclusion in their central archives. The program, initiated in July 2004, reached out to 200 schools and colleges over a two-year period.

Theme based Exhibition
The Museum holds regular special exhibitions on different aspects of the Liberation War. This includes: international support during the Liberation War; the role of cultural activists during Liberation War; and a “Victory as I Witness” photography exhibit by Japanese journalist Mr. Naoaki Usui (December 2003).