文化遗产是国家文化的重要组成部分。保护文化遗产是增强国民国家认同、民族自尊心和自豪感的重要方式，立法保护是实现文化遗产长久保护的根本途径。缅甸有保护文化遗产的文化传统，并在英国殖民时期开始通过立法方式保护本国文化遗产。独立以来，缅甸的文化遗产保护立法经历了起步、停滞、发展和完善等四个主要阶段，现已建构起一个基本的法律体系。缅甸积极参与国际文化遗产保护工作，努力推进本国文化遗产项目列入国际保护名录，进一步促进了法律体系建立健全。未来，随着文化遗产保护工作的深入发展，缅甸的文化遗产保护法律体系还将进一步健全完善。
Cultural heritage is a storage of a nation’s collective memory and an important part of national culture. Protecting cultural heritage is an important way to enhance national identity，national self-esteem and pride. The fundamental way to achieve long-term protection of cultural heritage is making protective law. Myanmar society has a cultural tradition of protecting cultural heritage. During the British colonial period，the Colonial Government began to protect its cultural heritage through legislative approach. Since independence，Myanmar’s cultural heritage protection legislation has gone through four main stages：initiation，stagnation，development and improvement. As a consequence，Myanmar has basically constructed a legal system for the protection of cultural heritage now. Myanmar has taken an active part in the protection of international cultural heritage，as well as made efforts to promote the inclusion of cultural heritage projects in international protection lists. That has further promoted the construction and development of this legal system. In the future，with the deepening and development of protection work，Myanmar’s cultural heritage protection legal system will be further improved.
