Former interim government chief adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus said the July Memory Museum has created new history by preserving the immediate past and shaping the future. He made the remarks at the formal inauguration of the July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum in the capital at 11 a.m. on Wednesday.

Yunus said museums in different countries collect many objects from the past, but described this museum as entirely different. According to him, it does not hold collected items from a distant past. Instead, materials connected to events that had just occurred were gathered immediately.

He said he did not know whether a museum of this kind exists elsewhere. Whenever memories of July were found, they were brought to the museum, he said, adding that the process had created a new stage in history. The report did not provide specific details about the museum’s collected materials, other speakers at the inauguration, or subsequent plans.