Suri, Sept. 22: Two classrooms where Pranab Mukherjee sat as a college student in Birbhum 60 years ago would be turned into a museum on the President.

Established in 1942, Vidyasagar College in Suri will celebrate its 75th year in 2017 and the decision to set up the museum is part of it.

Officials said the museum would have pictures of Mukherjee as a student, his signatures on college records, old documents related to him and other memorabilia collected from the President's family. The college has created a Facebook page to seek old pictures.

Mukherjee, who graduated from the college in Bengali in 1956, had last visited his alma mater in December 2012, months after becoming the President.

"It seems like yesterday that I was admitted here for the ISc course in 1952. My registration number was 5057 and the registration fee was Rs 2," he had said during the felicitation programme at the college.

The college has two things associated with Mukherjee - the classrooms where he attended lectures and a banyan tree under which he sat with his friends in between sessions.

Sristidhar Das, the principal of Vidyasagar College, said: "We have chosen the two abandoned classrooms for the museum. We will renovate them and set up the museum on the President. We will invite him to inaugurate it."

History teacher Partha Sankha Mazumder said he had a few documents and photographs of the old college campus.

Abhijit Mukherjee, the President's son, said: "If we have anything related to my father's college days, we'll definitely give them for the museum."