Tibet Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum to open

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After a nearly two years, work has been completed on the Tibetan Museum for Intangible Cultural Heritage. The world’s highest-altitude intangible cultural heritage museum will open to public in the second half of 2018.

With an investment of 120 million yuan (18.9 million US dollars), the museum covers an area of 40,000 square meters in the regional capital of Lhasa, 3,750 meters above the sea level.

File photo of people visiting the exhibition of Tibetan history and culture, ‘The Culture of Sky Road’, opening at the Capital Museum in Beijing on Feb. 27, 2018. /VCG Photo

The design of the main building is based on the styles of the Potala Palace and Jokhang Temple, merging traditional Tibetan building techniques with a contemporary architectural style.

Tibet is home to 89 state-level, 323 regional-level, and over 1,800 city and county-level intangible cultural heritage items.

File photo of Thangka paintings on display on the exhibition of Tibetan history and culture, ‘The Culture of Sky Road’, opening at the Capital Museum in Beijing on Feb. 27, 2018. /VCG Photo

The museum will exhibit several hundred items of intangible cultural heritage such as Gesar singing, Tibetan opera, and Thangka paintings, encompassing practices and living expressions handed down by the Tibetan from one generation to the next.

A surrounding garden of up to 25,000 square meters also features nearly 1,000 plants, including some that can only be found on the Tibetan plateau and others from around China.

(With inputs from Xinhua)

(Cover photo is a file photo of the exhibition of tibetan history and culture, ‘The Culture of Sky Road’, opening at the Capital Museum in Beijing on Feb. 27, 2018. /VCG Photo)