National Museum Yangon description and photos - Myanmar: Yangon (Topic)

National Museum Yangon description and photos - Myanmar: Yangon. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is National Museum Yangon.

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The collections of the Yangon National Museum showcase Burmese art, history and culture of Myanmar. Founded in 1952 and housed in a five-story building on Pei Road since 1996, the museum houses an extensive collection of jewelry, artwork, historical stone texts and antiques that tell the past of Burmese civilization.

The museum's collections are housed in 14 thematic exhibition halls. On the first floor, there is a gallery of Burmese calligraphy, which contains exhibits that tell about the origin and development of the Burmese alphabet. Samples of writing from other ancient peoples are also presented here.

The culture hall contains artifacts related to Burmese rural life. The selection of transport is very interesting, where you can see a traditional cart, which is harnessed to bulls. This mode of transport is still used today in the villages of Myanmar. There is also a selection of jewelry worn by Burmese people since ancient times. Tourists pay attention to another exhibit, which is a church bowl gilded and decorated with a mosaic of semi-precious stones.

The art gallery displays works demonstrating the development of Burmese painting. There are copies of drawings left on the walls of caves in the Stone Age, old prints and frescoes and paintings by contemporary famous artists of Myanmar.

In the adjacent room is a collection of ornate musical instruments of bizarre shapes and puppets used during classical drama and opera performances.

In the hall of royal regalia, there are collected objects that have been used in court ceremonies for many centuries. The Throne Room contains miniature copies of the thrones of the ancient Burmese kings.

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