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Barendra Museum was the first musuem to be established in Bangladesh in 1912. The museum started out as the collection for Barendra Anushandhan Samiti or Barendra Investigation Organization and got its current name in 1919. It has one of the best collections from Ancient Bengal, specially black stone statues of Buddhist and Hindu deities. The Zamindars of Rajshahi and Natore, notably Kumar Sharat Kumar Ray, donated their personal collections to Barendra Museum. Statues of Buddha such as this, the Tian Tan Buddha statue in Hong Kong, remind followers to practice right living. ... This article is about the Hindu religion; for other meanings of the word, see Hindu (disambiguation). ...

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	Barendra Museum was the first museum to be established in Bangladesh in 1910.
	The museum started out as the collection for ''Barendra Anushandhan Samiti'' or ''Barendra Investigation Society'' and got its current name in 1919.
	In 1964, the museum became a part of Rajshahi University.

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