The Lhasa Customs History Museum will open to the public for free from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 on September 20, according to the Lhasa Customhouse. 

 
File photo shows the staffers with the Lhasa Customhouse, photo from chinatibetnews.com.

Visitors have to register collectively before 12:30 a.m. on September 18 and will visit the museum in three groups.

Displayed at the museum are ancient armour suits, arrows and crossbows, as well as kitchen ware, video cameras and uniforms used by employees with the Lhasa Customhouse.

Construction of the museum began in 2004. The museum, covering an area of 100 sq meters, officially opened on August 8, 2008, with 300 pictures and 100 objects on show.

Visitors will have a chance to know the humiliating history of the old Tibet customs that had been controlled by imperialists, as well as the progress in and development of the new Tibet Customhouse over the past 40 years.

All the pictures and objects at the museum have been collected by the staff members of the Lhasa Customhouse in the past four years.

The museum was designated as a base for education in patriotism in October 2008 and a base for education in national defense earlier this year by the Publicity Department of the Tibet Autonomous Regional CPC Committee.