Housed in the former teak palace of the saopha (prince) of Yawnghwe, this small museum sits at the northern edge of Nyangshwe and is easy to overlook. The last saopha, Sao Shwe Thaik, was the first president of independent Burma in 1948; he died in custody after the 1962 coup, and his palace was eventually turned into a museum.
The collection itself is thin — old royal robes, ceremonial objects, photographs — but the building is the real attraction. Two storeys of dark teak with carved verandas, it gives a sense of how the small Shan courts lived before the army shut them down.