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Tibet Museum 西藏博物馆Xīzàng Bówùguǎn
4A scenic area · Lhasa, Tibet
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Lhasa
- Region
- Tibet
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Tibet Museum
The regional museum of Tibet beside the Norbulingka, first opened in 1999 and reopened in July 2022 after being rebuilt and enlarged on the same site; it holds some 520,000 objects, more than 40,000 of them graded as precious. The history and culture galleries run from Neolithic finds of the Karuo culture and replica rock art from Ngari to early Tibetan medical texts, thangkas, statues and imperial documents such as a golden book granted to the 11th Dalai Lama in 1841. A second permanent exhibition covers folk culture, with costumes, tea sets, a yak-hair tent and a yak-skin boat.
How to get to Tibet Museum
On Norbulingka Road next to the Norbulingka, about 2 km west of the Potala Palace. Closed on Mondays.
Nearby
- Potala Palace 布达拉宫 under 10 km
The red and white palace of the Dalai Lamas, rising in tiers above Lhasa - Jokhang Temple & Barkhor 大昭寺与八廓街 under 10 km
Tibet's holiest temple, ringed by the pilgrim circuit of the Barkhor
Also within 20 km: Norbulingka 罗布林卡 (under 10 km), Qinghai-Tibet-Sichuan-Tibet Highway Monument 川藏、青藏公路纪念碑 (under 10 km), Drak Lhalupuk Cave Temple 查拉鲁普石窟 (under 10 km), Lhasa Nanshan Park 南山公园 (under 10 km), Ramoche Temple 小昭寺 (under 10 km), Tibet Yak Museum 西藏牦牛博物馆 (under 10 km).
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