Santiniketan, Oct. 2: Visva-Bharati will open a museum solely dedicated to Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali, the anthology of poems for which the Bard received the Nobel prize in 1913.

University officials said this would be the first Visva-Bharati museum that would house memorabilia associated with one book of Tagore.

The museum, which is expected to be inaugurated by poet Shankha Ghosh on Tuesday, will showcase the replica of the Nobel medallion, pens and papers used by Tagore, the original manuscript of Gitanjali, digital displays of covers of translations of the book in various languages and letters people from all over the world wrote to the Bard congratulating him for the honour.

The museum will be housed in three rooms of Rabindra Bhavana. Visva-Bharati sources said former Rajya Sabha MP Barun Mukherji of the Forward Bloc had donated Rs 70 lakh for the museum.

All poems and songs in Gitanjali and its English translation Song Offerings will be displayed. A digital screen will flash the Gitanjali manuscripts and editions and the congratulatory letters Tagore received.

Visva-Bharati officials said documents related to the Nobel prize would also be showcased.

A copy of the letter British poet Thomas Sturge Moore wrote to the Nobel Committee of Literature at the Swedish Academy proposing Tagore's name for the prize will be on display along with a portrait of Moore.

"Sir, as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, I have the honour to propose the name of Rabindra Nath Tagore as a person qualified, in my opinion, to be awarded the Nobel prize in literature," the letter said.

A letter to Tagore by Susan Owen, the mother of poet Wilfred Owen, will also be displayed.

"Wilfred Owen read Song Offerings in his tent during World War I and, in a letter to his mother, quoted a line he liked. The line was 'When I leave, let these be my parting words: what my eyes have seen, what my life received, are unsurpassable'. Susan Owen wrote to Tagore in 1920, telling him how much her son liked his works," a senior Rabindra Bhavana official said.