the sonargaon folk arts and crafts museum

preserving our crafts heritage

The Sonargaon Folk Arts and Crafts Museum was established by Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin to store craft objects for future generations. He hoped to promote the steadily declining trade, encourage the skill of its producers and preserve the hundreds of years of history that crafts represents. Kashfia Arif and Fahim Siddiqi investigate the history of this…