Tibet History Museum
Tibet Museum is located at the southeast corner of the
Norbulingka Road in Lhasa. It is the first large-sized
comprehensive modern museum in the Tibet Autonomous
Region; it is a brilliant literary and arts palace of
the Tibetan people, a gem of Tibetan civilization and
a treasure house of Tibetan cultural relics.
It was open to the public
on October 5,1999. The site of the
museum covers an area of 53,959 square
meters, with a total construction
area of 23,508 square meters. The
area for exhibition department covers
10,451 square meters, consisting of
three sections: a main exhibition
hall, a folk cultural garden and an
administrative quarter. The building
is magnificent, and combined Tibetan
traditional architecture with modern
technology. Its characteristics are
unique. Together with its neighboring
Norbulingka Park, it has become one
of the most beautiful places in the
ancient city of Lhasa.
the Tibet Museum was built, numerous cultural relics
in the Autonomous Region were kept in shabby storehouses
of the departments in charge of historical relics, others
were scattered among and kept by the common people.
Because of the limitations of exhibition, those relics
were seldom put on display for the public, and there
were fewer opportunities to introduce them through publication.
As a matter of fact, the rich cultural connotations
of these historical relics were not utilized. At the
present, under the new conditions of reform and opening
up to the outside world, to build in Tibet a large-scale
museum with rich content is to inherit and develop our
predecessors' career. It has become a center for the
broad masses of people to understand the Tibetan history
and culture. It has also become a new place of interest
in Lhasa, the capital city of the Autonomous Region.
the Tibet Museum has a
rich collection of cultural relics,
including various types of cultural
relics of prehistoric period, title-conferring
documents issued by the feudal dynasties
of past ages, seals of authority,
gold albums, gifts granted by emperors.
There are also numerous statues of
buddhas, bodhisattvas, and figures.
There are also rare sutras written
on pattra leaves and birch bars, and
manuscripts written with gold powder,
silver powder, and coral powder. There
are also various printed Sanskrit
and Tibetan scriptures and colorful
tangkas of various painting genres.
Unique Tibetan handicrafts, costumes,
jewelry, gold ware, silver ware and
jade ware are also in the collection.
All these are of excellent quality
and are invaluable.
aim of the Tibet Museum is to preserve cultural relics
of the best quality, to make acadmeic study and to put
them on display so that the visitors may appreciate
the Tibetan historical civilization. The "Exhibition
of Tibetan History and Culture" is a major part
of the Museum, which includes more than a thousand pieces
of selected objects, showing the long history and brilliant
culture of the Tibetan people.
The content of the book
Tibet Museum is an introduction to
the cultural relics preserved in the
Museum. It is compiled by the professionals
of various departments of the Museum.
Its content covers various aspects
of Tibetan history and culture. This
pictorial album is a record of one
of the "Top Ten National Exhibitions
of Excellent Cultural Relics, 1999."
It is a display of the wisdom and
gigantic creativity of the Tibetan
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of Ancient Tibetan Kings