Tibet Museum Inaugurates Exhibition on Rare Photos of Younghusband’s 1904 Military Expedition to Lhasa

DHARAMSHALA: The Tibet Museum of Department of Information and International Relations, inaugurated a photo exhibition titled ‘Capturing Tibet: Colonialism and the Camera during the Mission to Lhasa’ on 14th April 2017. The exhibition is a joint collaboration between Tibet Museum, National Museums Liverpool and University of Manchester. The exhibition features 12-Panels (two albums) of unseen photographs captured during the Younghusband military expedition to Lhasa in 1904. The photographs were taken by two British officers; John Claude White and Gerald Irvine Davys, and sourced from the collections of National Museums Liverpool. It will be open from 14 April till 24 May 2017