The Panchagarh Rocks Museum is first and only rock museum of Bangladesh. It was established in 1997 (according to some 2000) at Panchagarh Government Womens College premises. The initiative was taken by the then principle of the college, Professor Dr. Md. Namzul Haque. In 2008, the Bangladesh government a second-story building for the Rocks Museum.

What is a rocks museum?

A rocks museum—more usually referred to as a geology museum, mineral museum, or natural history museum with a geology section—is an area where rocks, minerals, fossils, and related geological specimens are gathered, conserved, and shown for public access and education.

What’s inside the Rocks Museum?

This museum contains about 1,000 archeological and folk art objects from the Panchagarh district. The Rocks Museum features two categories of galleries: indoor and outdoor. The inner gallery has igneous rocks of diverse shapes, hues, and properties, sedimentary rocks, gravel, silica gravel, silica sand, yellow and dark yellow sand, mineral sand, white soil, undulating flat stones, limestone, silt, potter's clay, and hard rocks. Bricks and terracotta figures from ancient buildings can be found here.

There are additional significant collections in the museum. Two ancient boats that were constructed between 500 and 1000 years ago using just one truck of tree, multicolored sand and soil, petrified "shall wood," and net, as well as extremely old pictures of bamboo that were afraid of various types of antics and very old texts.

Here, silver and copper coins from the Mughal Empire and British administration, as well as treaties dating back thousands of years, are preserved. Small ethnographic communities' household goods, farming tools, and diverse religious artifacts are arranged. Furthermore, Sino-Nepali script prints on stones can be found here. This museum has been embellished with twelve different colors of sand. In order to slake the curiosity of inquisitive tourists, sand and silt have been gathered from the bottom of several rivers. All year long, people visit this place. Winter, however, sees an upsurge in visitors. In order to see Kanchenjunga, many visitors from Tetulia in Panchagarh come to Panchagarh at the start of the winter. After that, they make sure to visit this museum at least once.

How to Go:

There are both AC and non AC bus services from Dhaka to Panchagarh. After reaching Panchagarh, you may use rickshaw or van, auto rickshaw to visit this museum.