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[[file: Tibet Museum.JPEG|thumb|200px|left|the Tibet Museum]]

'''Tibet Museum''' ('''西藏博物馆'''), located southeast of the Norbulingka, is the first one of its kind in [[Tibet]] with modern facilities and functions. Its construction began in 1996 and was completed in June 1999. With a floor space of 23,508 sq. m, it is divided into four sections—the exhibition area, office and residential area, folk culture park, and storehouse for cultural relics.

It boasts a collection of some 40,000 precious rare objects. On display are prehistoric cultural relics, Buddhist images, bodhisattvas, sculptures of historical figures, Tibetan classics and exquisite Thang-gas (Tangkas) of every kind, religious instruments, musical instruments, pottery and rare handicrafts.

It also houses relics related to Songtsen Gampo’s uniting Tibet and his marriage with Tang [[Princess Wencheng]]; [[Yuan]] court documents on the official annexation of Tibet into Yuan territory; official letters and documents exchanged between the successive Chinese central governments and the Tibetan local government; the gold seals and gold portfolio of authority bestowed by the emperors on the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama; and the golden urn for drawing lots to select high lamas.
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imported>Ciic at 01:32, 29 November 2012