The Tibet Museum was established in 1998 by the 'Department of Information and International Relations' for the express purpose of:

"...creating an awareness of Tibetan issues and strengthening national identity and pride by presenting the story of Tibet's political past from 1959 to the present.."

Tibet Museum or Demton Khang (in Tibetan) is the Tibetan institution created to serve as a source of permanent memorial and commemoration site for Tibetans who have died as a result of the Chinese occupation.

In 1949, Tibet an Independent country with a unique religious, cultural and linguistic tradition was occupied by the armed People's Liberation Army of People's Republic of China(PRC). Since 1950 more than 1.2 million Tibetans died while a systematic process of genocide and cultural and religious oppression was carried out by PRC. Roughly ninety percent-about 6000 monasteries and temples were demolished. Religious objects were looted or destroyed and centuries of Buddhist teachings were lost as the texts that contained them were burned.

The primary mission of this museum is to disseminate knowledge of the Chinese occupation of Tibet to provide personal accounts of lives lost in Tibet during its occupation by the communist China, and to educate the global community on the continuous and ongoing abuses waged by the Chinese government against the Tibetan people. Besides our permanent exhibition at Tibet Museum near Tsuglagkhang temple in Mcleod Ganj, we also seeks to achieve these goals through the establishment of Photographic and Audio visual archives at international levels. To succeed in our endeavor of dissemination and creating awareness about the issue of Tibet, we travel to different parts of India and showcase our exhibition at schools, monasteries and other institutes. Along with Tibetan settlements, schools and monasteries we also seek to show our exhibition to local Indian communities and educate them about the Tibet issue