Sonargaon folk art and craft museum | সোনারগাঁও লোকশিল্প জাদুঘর 

Sonargaon is a historic city in central Bangladesh (Bengal as Show-Naar-GAA, Golden Hamlet).

It corresponds to the Narayanganj District 

of Sonargaon Upazila in the Dhaka Division.

 

Sonargaon draws many tourists each year in Bangladesh. It hosts the Bangladesh Folk Arts and Crafts Foundation, as well as various archaeological sites, Sufi shrines, Hindu temples, and historic mosques and tombs.

In this article, I will give you some information about 

Bangladesh Folk Arts and Crafts Foundation is a government foundation that is responsible for the preservation of; and arrange training programmes on arts and crafts, and the setting up of folk art museum in Bangladesh and is located in Sonargaon, Narayanganj, Bangladesh.

The foundation was established in July 1975.  It was amended through the Bangladesh Folk Art and Crafts Foundation Act in parliament. The minister of cultural affairs. It holds a yearly month-long fair celebrating folk art.^[4] It also holds fair every Bengali New Year. 

The Bangladesh Folk Arts and Crafts Foundation was established in Sonargaon by Bangladeshi painter Zainul Abedin on 12 March 1975.  The house, originally called Bara Sardar Bari, was built in 1901. On 15 February 1984, Narayanganj subdivision was upgraded to a district by the Government of Bangladesh. 

A sub-district of Narayanganj District was named as Sonargaon. Due to the many threats to preservation (including flooding and vandalism), Sonargaon was placed in 2008 Watch List of the 100 Most Endangered Sites by the World Monuments Fund.

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