National Museum enters digital era

The National Museum has entered digitalisation process with information of 10,000 artifacts, relics, antiques, replicas and famous pictures of different museums were inserted in the database, chief of the national organisation said Wednesday, reports BSS. DG Prokash Chandra Das said the authorities have stored information of only 10 per cent of historic evidence, while it has been eying to post data of all the 100,000 such samples on the website by 2012. The government has allocated an amount of nearly Tk 27.5 million for the year 2010-12 to expedite the national museum's endeavours to go digital in line with the government's vision for Digital Bangladesh.