Rabindra Kachari House

Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore’s ancestral house is known as Rabindranath Tagore’s Kacharibari, located in Shahjadpur upazila, 40 km from Sirajganj district headquarters. In the 18th century this building was used as a Nilakuti. In 1842, Rabindranath Tagore’s grandfather, Prince Dwarkanath Tagore, bought the house in an auction from the British. From 1890 to 1896, Rabindranath Tagore stayed at this Kachari house in Shahjadpur for 7 years. Rabindranath Tagore wrote various literary works like Chitra, Sonar Tari, Chaitali, Gitanjali and Visarjan from this house. When the zamindari system was abolished in 1969 Shilaidah Rabindranath’s kuthibari was taken under the Directorate of Archeology to preserve it as a glorious monument. After independence in 1971, this Rabindra Kachari house was opened for public. The Rabindra Kachari House, built in Indo-European style of architecture on an area of ​​about ten bighas, has now been developed as the Rabindra Museum. The 16 rooms on the first and second floors of the museum store Rabindranath Tagore’s various poses, photographs and used items from his childhood to his old age. Among which the artworks painted by the poet, photographs of the poet’s childhood, youth and youth, palanquins, speedboats, wooden chairs, tea tables, couches and other used items and furniture are among them. Every day innumerable Rabindra devotees from far and wide visit this place where the memories of the poet are enmeshed.

Entrance fee and schedule : Rabindra Kachari Bari Museum is open from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm except Sundays and other public holidays. But on Friday from 12:30 PM to noon. There is a break for prayers till 2:30 p.m. And on Monday from 2:30 PM to 6:30 PM you can enter the museum. Entry fee is Tk 20 per person for Bangladeshi visitors and Tk 100 per person for foreign tourists.