List of museums in Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste is home to a number of museums, including the Timorese Resistance Archive and Museum and Centro Nacional Chega! in Dili, the capital, and the Balibo Fort Veterans' Museum in Balibo, Bobonaro Municipality. Regional museums were established in four of Timor-Leste's municipalities in the early 2020s.

Plans for the creation of a national museum and cultural center have been in development since 2010. In 2022, Timor-Leste's parliament allocated US$2.2 million for the project.

Museums InstitutionFacts about the Smithsonian Institution. newsdesk.si.edu (Pressroom of the Smithsonian Institution). Retrieved February 19, 2011LocationMunicipalityOpenedAileu Memorial Municipal MuseumAileuAileu2022Balibo Fort Veterans' MuseumBaliboBobonaro2022Bobonaro Memorial Municipal MuseumMalianaBobonaro2023Centro Nacional Chega!DiliDili2016Cova Lima Memorial Resistance Municipal MuseumSuaiCova Lima2021Dare Memorial MuseumDareDili2009Galeria Memória VivaDiliDili2022Timorese Resistance Archive and MuseumDiliDili2005Xanana Gusmão Reading RoomDiliDili2000Viqueque Memorial Municipal MuseumKrarasViqueque2021

Defunct museums

Provincial Museum of East Timor (1995–1999)

See also

Lists of museums

References