Lhasa,

An ancient and sacred city.

Lhasa, an ancient plateau city that was founded nearly 1,400 years ago,

Because of its long history and unique and profound culture;

Through exchanges and mutual learning, we demonstrate tolerance and confidence.

When I came to Lhasa, I wanted to be under the blue sky and white clouds,

To feel the culture here, you might as well go to the following places.

(Lhasa Ancient City)

1. Recommended location: Jibenggang Art Center (northeast side of the intersection of Ramoche Temple Road and Beijing East Road, Chengguan District, Lhasa City)

Jibenggang Art Center is the first public cultural space renovated from an ancient building in Tibet. The original building Jibenggang Lakang was built in the second half of the 19th century and was built according to the most representative three-dimensional mandala structure in Tibetan architecture. .

The museum is currently exhibiting Tibet's first digital art exhibition "MVM: Infinite Universe", which will last until March 31. Exhibiting installation, new media, and sound art works created by 13 artists/groups of artists.

(Jibungang Art Center)

Opening hours:

Art Center on the First Floor

Tuesday to Sunday

Open 10:30-18:30

No reservation required, free visit

Artistic Coffee Space on the Second Floor

Normal business will resume on March 23

2. Recommended location: Hima Hima Gallery (First Floor, Science and Technology Building, Zangdazhong Road, Chengguan District, Lhasa City)

hima Hima Gallery was established in 2023. As a new cultural space of the Lhasa Municipal Cultural Bureau, the gallery focuses on today's Tibet and the art here, and builds a bridge between Tibetan artists and the world - hoping to integrate the art growing in Tibet with the broader cultural landscape beyond.

The current exhibition "Lhasa Fish: Plateau Urban Legends and Multispecies Ethnographic Narratives" at hima hima Gallery is free to view.

The exhibition is a solo exhibition developed by the art group composed of Tenzin Darmei and Ge Tairan, which combines field research and fictional narratives. It is also the first public announcement since the research was launched in 2022.

The core of the exhibition is the art team's investigation into this unique phenomenon in contemporary Tibet: street vendors collectively refer to the edible fish species in the Lhasa River as "Lhasa fish," but most of them are actually exotic fish that have proliferated in recent years. Tenzin Dalmei and Ge Tairan have conducted many field surveys on this issue. In this exhibition, they used painting, theater, sculpture, video and other media to construct the exhibition space as the residence of a fictional Tibetan ecological researcher Mei Duo (མེ་ཏོག).

Exhibition deadline: March 17

11:00-19:00 (Closed on Mondays)

3. Recommended location: Tibetan Yak Museum (No. 16 Chagu Avenue, Liuwu New District, Lhasa City)

The Tibetan Yak Museum is an important cultural project supported by Beijing’s counterpart in Lhasa. It was officially opened to the public in 2014. The Yak Museum is an anthropological thematic museum that displays the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation and the relationship between yak and Tibetan people.

In order to show the glorious history of the Communist Party of China, cultivate patriotism and revolutionary traditional education, and promote the core socialist values. The Tibetan Yak Museum exchanged and cooperated with the China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing to introduce "Revolutionary Ideals Higher than the Sky - Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army Slogan Exhibition", which was exhibited in Lhasa on March 13.

Opening hours

Open Tuesday to Sunday

11:00-17:00

(Admission ends at 16:30)

(Tibetan Yak Museum)

4. Recommended location: Chairman Mao Badge Museum (No. 16 Chagu Avenue, Liuwu New District, Lhasa City)

In 1982, Chairman Mao's badge was designated as a modern cultural relic by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. The Chairman Mao Badge Museum collects more than 300,000 Mao Zedong commemorative badges from various periods, as well as precious historical materials such as photocopies of Mao Zedong's manuscripts, photos, and documentary materials.