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Do you know any good museums in Myanmar worth visiting?

• ilya_m 2y ago
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  • rad_gruchalski 2y ago
    Have you heard what’s happening in Myanmar? Does the term „military junta” ring a bell? Myanmar isn’t exactly a place where people fly to, have a breakfast at the hotel patio, then go around town contemplating museums an popping down a random Starbucks.
    • ilya_m 2y ago
      Is having a stable, democratically elected government a requirement for permitting a nation to keep its heritage? What about having Starbucks on every corner - is this necessary or just optional? Greece or Egypt had their share of occupations, coup d'etats, and military juntas over the last 200 years. Does it mean that there's an open season on their treasures each time there's a regime change? Oh wait...
• kyawzazaw 2y ago
  none
  • ada1981 2y ago
    I thought this was a thread specific throw away account due to the “kyaw”.
    • kyawzazaw 2y ago
      just my name
• JadeNB 2y ago
  This kind of reasoning is self-perpetuating, though: there are no good museums here, so interesting things need to be shipped abroad to be exhibited properly, so there are no good museums here because there's nothing interesting to put in them …. (I don't necessarily blame any individual for this—I think most of us are sometimes, or always, part of one system or another that everyone hates but that is the result of constant rational decisions.)
  • rad_gruchalski 2y ago
    Could it be that the current political situation in Myanmar isn’t the most stable?
  • lazide 2y ago
    Eh, typically museums exist where there is a lot of money willing to be spent on showing things off, or spinning a narrative. Or capitals of empires that have done a lot of Looting. Many of these things are basically variants of the same thing. Myanmar, well…. doesn’t really have the wealth for most of those things.