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Archives and Libraries

• Archives collect and preserve original documents of organizations such as churches or governments. Libraries generally collect published sources such as books, maps, and microfilm.
• If you plan to visit a repository, contact them and ask for information about their collection, hours, services, and fees. Ask if they require you to have a reader’s ticket (a paper indicating you are a responsible researcher) to view the records, and ask how to obtain one.
• Although the records you need may be in an archive or library, the FamilySearch Library may have microfilmed and/or digitized copies of them.

Archives

National Archives Department (Nay Pyi Taw)
Yazathingaha Road
Oattarrathiyi Township
Nay Pyi Taw

Phone: +95-67-418386
Fax: +95-67-418376
E-mail: nad@mptmail.net.mm
Website

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National Archives Department (Yangon)
No.114, Pyidaungsu Yeiktha Road
Dagon Township
Yangon

Phone: +95-1-370778
Fax: +95-1-395002
Website

Libraries

Online Burma Library

• The Online Burma/Myanmar Library (“OBL”, “the Library”). is a free, non-commercial, open, multi-source, searchable, online research library focused on Burma/Myanmar. It grew out of the documentation on Burma/Myanmar provided from 1987 to the UN, ILO and other international bodies by the Burma Peace Foundation. It provides information on and for Burma/Myanmar, and holds approximately 50,000 links to documents (of which a quarter are in Burmese) and websites. OBL is by far the largest single source of organised Burma/Myanmar material on the Internet. The material - substantial archives, articles, periodicals, reports, books and videos (and links which lead to many more thousands of documents) - is organised under 100 categories such as Health, Land, Economy, Environment, Law and Constitution, Foreign Relations and History. It is a hybrid library/portal site since approximately half the material is located on our own server - the library function - and half on remote sites, to which OBL makes links - the portal function. OBL does not cover breaking news directly, though we link to the sites of the more than 100 groups and individuals which do.

Museums

Google Search: Museums/Myanmar (Burma)

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National Museum of Myanmar (Yangon)
66/74 Pyay Road
Dagon 11191, Yangon
Yangon Division, Myanmar

Phone: +95 9 250 701 353
Wikipedia: National Museum of Myanmar (Yangon)

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National Museum of Myanmar (Naypyidaw)
Yaza Thingaha Road
Ottarathiri Township
Naypyidaw, Myanmar

Phone: +95 9 250 701 353
Wikipedia: National Museum of Myanmar (Naypyidaw)