Museum at the Myanmar Motion Pictures Organisation has been reopened from July 5. All the six halls within the museum has been opened for public from 10 am to 3 pm on weekends and public holidays. Six halls are the silver gallery, the gold gallery, the diamond gallery, the centenary gallery, the academy gallery and the machinery gallery. “Myanmar film industry has completed the centennial anniversary. The museum has been around for 75 years to provide next generation with opportunity to learn and study the history of Myanmar film industry. It aims for researchers and media personnel to get the right information and to honour those in the film industry and to return benefits to them,” he said.
The silver gallery features a collection of well-known films made between 1920 and 1945, with the gold gallery showing posters and memorabilia of films made between 1945 and 1970, the diamond gallery exhibiting information about the films made from 1970 to 1995, the centenary gallery showcasing information about the films made from 1995 to 2020, the academy gallery showing photos of the winners, and the machinery gallery showing machines used 25 to 50 years ago.
Entrance fees are 1,000 Kyats for Myanmar nationals, with a 50 per cent discount for associations and schools, and $2 for foreigners, in Kyats equivalent. Built in 1996, reopened once in 2022 and attempted to reopen in 2023, the museum has been closed since then for various reasons and hopefully after this reopening, it would not be closed again for whatever reasons.