The National Museum of Myanmar was established in 1952. It was first opened at the Jubilee Hall Building on Shwedagon Pagoda Road, Yangon in June 1952. Then the museum was moved to a more specious location at 24/26 Pansodan Street in 1970 and it is moved again to the current location in 1996. The new National Museum has been opening to the public since 18th September 1996. It is located in Dagon Township in Yangon, Myanmar which is a splendid five story building purposely built for the museum. The total land area of the museum is 3.804 acres and the museum building is 380 ft. by 200 ft. wide. In front of the National Museum, the statues of Myanmar Kings named "A Laung Pha Yar", "Ba Yint Naung" and "A Naw Ra Hta" are placed respectively from left to right. This Museum has wide range collection of the ancient artifacts, ornaments, royal regalia, musical instruments, decorative works of art, inscriptions and historic memorabilia that related to history, culture and civilization of the indigenous Burmese people.

There are 14 halls in the 4 floors of the museum in total. The themes of the halls are arranged as follows: 1. Myanmar Epigraphy and Calligraphy 2. Lion Throne 3. Yadanapon Period 4. Royal Regalia 5. Myanmar Historic Period 6. Myanmar Prehistoric period and Proto-historic period 7. Natural History 8. Myanmar Traditional Folk Art 9. Myanmar Performing Arts 10. Myanmar Art Gallery (1) and (2) 11. Myanmar Ancient Ornaments 12. Buddha Images 13. The Culture of National peace and 14. Twelve national objectives and National Building Endeavors.

Ground Floor