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Inwa Archaeological Museum

TIME : 2016/2/17 15:28:04

This airy two-hall museum is mostly full of 19th-century marble Buddha statues with their gold leaf rubbed off. More interesting is the giant 18th-century Buddha 'footprint' and a few black-and-white photos of Ava Bridge's innauguration (1934) and WWII scuttling (1942). Labels are in English but there is no commentary of context to justify the preposterous 2500% foreigner mark-up Nearby there are great views across the canal to the golden stupa of Shwezigon.