In 1952, when Myanmar became independent, the Ministry of Culture started managing the museum.

The three-story museum houses a number of rare Bagan period objects including the original Myazedi inscriptions, the Rosetta Stone of Burma.

Emanuel_Forchhammer, a professor of Pali at Rangoon College, was entrusted with the task of preserving it.

At the time of the construction of the building, the previous eight-point museum was kept, and the office of the Department of Archeology next to it was dismantled.

According to State media report, a total of 295,284 local and foreign travellers visited the Bagan Archaeological Museum in the 2018-2019 fiscal year.