We metaphorically call “Mandalay Capital City” as a university of Myanma Cultural Arts. As Mandalay had been a royal city of Myanmar, many cultural arts had been flourished. Myanma Traditional cultural heritages have been thriving since the time of Myanmar monarchs. So the natives of Mandalay have been preserving cultural heritages. They have made new creations of the cultural arts in order not to be disappeared.

So, I’d like to introduce you with a house in Mandalay embellished with cultural handiworks. The house owner is no other than, U Sein Myint, entrepreneur-cum-tapestry expert.

He has an interest in cultural heritages and antiques since young. So, he has been collecting and preserving these cultural handiworks adoringly. He creates his art-gallery as a mini-museum in his house for the people to enable to view and observe the priceless cultural heritages.

At the entrance of the art-gallery, we firstly witness Myanma fancy bullock-cart which is an ancient handiwork. Myanma bullock carts are still in use in rural regions to travel from one place to another. Here are some interesting things tapes tried clothes worn in royal palace and the old photos.

As the art of tapestry is used for royalty, it can be said that it is a kind of Myanma traditional handicraft. Being a tapestry expert, U Sein Myint has collected many tapestries that are over 100 years of age.

The paintings depicting the elephant festival and equestrian festival are decorated with the beauty of the woodcarving art. The antique images carved of wood, relief’s, golden embroidered paintings; tapestry ceiling, glass mosaic figures, Myanma traditional lacqueware, instruments and palm-leaf inscriptions are exhibited in the art-gallery.

As U Sein Myint is an outstanding painter, a painting showroom is also opened in a separate room. In drawing modern art, he uses international technique based on the idea of Myanma traditional and cultural art. The painting showroom welcomes every painting enthusiast who wishes to feel his art.

That’s why, U Sein Myint’s tapestry gallery is like an art bank for those who want to observe and study Myanma cultural heritages, Myanma tradition and customs, cultural handiworks and antiques because various forms of cultural handiworks and ancient artifacts based on ten kinds of Myanma traditional arts and crafts are put on display there.