Cherry Thinn

Biography

Cherry works as Assistant Director in the Department of Archaeology at the National Museum, Myanmar. In 2023, Cherry worked with Mrauk-U Archaeological Museum to update the information on artefacts and upgrade the exhibition rooms. She also formed a conservation room and conducted the chemical conservation of museum artefacts.

Cherry previously worked for Halin Archaeological Museum as an Assistant Curator from 2016 to 2021. Her principal responsibility in this role was curatorial works for the Archaeological Museum, focusing on the Prehistoric and Proto-historic Period Burial Site Museums and Stone Inscription Shelter in Halin. At these sites Cherry had a diverse range of responsibilities including acquisitions, documentation, public education, conducting special exhibitions in the Archaeological Museum and managing the collections. She collaborated with colleagues from the Myanmar-France Archaeological Team to analyse the composition of objects made from stone, glass and metal – as a result of finds from a Myanmar-French excavation team.

Cherry researches the study of Myanmar Gems Museum; the current situation of Nat Beliefs in Myanmar houses; the educational role at the National Museum; and a Comparative Study on Collections Management of National Museums between Myanmar and China.

Cherry has been studying the doctoral course in Archaeology at Henan University (China) since September 2023. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Distance Education (Yangon), a Postgraduate Diploma in Museology from National University of Arts and Culture (Yangon), and a Masters degree in Cultural Heritage and Museology from Capital Normal University in Beijing, China.

Cherry worked with colleagues at the National Museum (Nay Pyi Taw) from 2010 to 2016 by contributing to national and international special exhibitions and the upgrading of permanent displays in cultural and archaeological museums under the Department of Archaeology and the National Museum.

At the British Museum
During her time on the International Training Programme, Cherry was based in the Asia Department and her partner placement was spent at Glasgow Museums.

In 2019 participants were asked to plan and propose a temporary exhibition around an object from the Museum’s collection working within the theme of journeys.  Cherry worked with Rema Zeynalova (Azerbaijan) on her Object in focus project, Journey Towards Eternity.

Cherry’s place on the International Training Programme was generously supported by the Charles Wallace Burma Trust.