National Museum, Yangon, Myanmar

First inaugurated June 1952 at Jubilee Hall on Shwedagon Pagoda Road, the museum moved to Pansodan Road on 8 February 1970, then to its present 3.804-acre site at 66/74 Pyay Road in 1996.

Its collection of Myanmar art and material culture — royal regalia, musical instruments, decorative arts — fills 14 galleries across a five-storey building: Myanmar Epigraphy and Calligraphy, the Lion Throne, the Yadanapon Period, Royal Regalia, Myanmar Historic Period, Myanmar Prehistoric/Proto-historic Period, Natural History, Myanmar Traditional Folk Art, Myanmar Performing Arts, two Myanmar Art Gallery rooms, Myanmar Ancient Ornaments, Buddha Images, the Culture of National Peace, and the Twelve National Objectives and National Building Endeavours.

Collection size: nearly 5,000 permanent objects — stone, fossils, bronze, iron, silver, paintings in many media, gold/gem ornaments, Buddha statues in stone/gold/silver/wood/bronze, textiles, leather, palm-leaf manuscripts, instruments, puppets and royal regalia.