Presidency University's museum was inaugurated by the West Bengal Governor K N Tripathi. The museum contains the items which represent the history of the premier educational institution. The institute is 200-year-old.
Presidency Mentor Group ‘Chairʼ Professor Sugata Bose said, “The museum will be a communication between our past and present. It (museum) has been curated by my friend Swapan Chakraborty (former director general of the National Library and a distinguished professor of Presidency University) and as a historian, I am proud of what he did”.
While addressing the crowd, he said, “Presidency needed such an archive. It is a matter of great happiness. The museum will reflect the intellectual heritage of the college-turned-university in a tangible manner. It will showcase its history since its foundation in 1817 as it has put together exhibits of all kinds of institutional records.”
The museum displays some of the rare exhibits like legendary scientist J.C Bose's attendance record, a copy of Newton's Principia Mathematics and edition of the magazine of the erstwhile Presidency College containing the Nobel laureate Amartya Senʼs article in Bengali ‘Bigyaponer Arthonityʼ (Economics of Advertisement).
“The attendance records of physicist Satyendra Nath Bose and astrophysicist Meghnad Saha are also on display,” museum curator Chakraborty said.