The Myanmar Motion Picture Museum is a film museum dedicated to the

Cinema of Burma The cinema of Burma dates back to the 1910s. The person who created the first silent film was Ohn Maung (Burma's first producer and director). Start of the Burmese cinema The Victoria Parsi Theaterical Company which screened movies in Rango ...

located in

Yangon Yangon, formerly romanized as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar. Yangon was the List of capitals of Myanmar, capital of Myanmar until 2005 and served as such until 2006, when the State Peace and Dev ...

. It is housed in a building which was formerly the headquarters of the Myanmar Motion Picture Organisation (MMPO). It was established in November 1998 to display the efforts of successful

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

s and

producers Producer(s), The Producer(s), or co-producer(s) may refer to: Occupations *Producer (agriculture), a farm operator *Producer, a stakeholder of economic production * Film producer, supervises the making of films **Executive producer, contributes t ...

in the motion picture history of the country. The museum has seven sections devoted to the silver quadrennial (1920–1945), golden quadrennial (1946–1970), diamond quadrennial (1971–1995) and ruby quadrennial (1996–2020) periods, movie props and makeup, technical equipment, and best achievement awards.

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In 2001 July 7, Members of Bengal Initiative, a think tank of Calcutta, India visited.The New Light of Myanmar
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Cinema of Myanmar Museums established in 1998 Cinema museums Museums in Yangon 1998 establishments in Myanmar {{Burma-museum-stub