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The article focuses on the Museums along the ancient Silk Road that runs from Southeast Asia to Central Asia and then to Europe. Since early times there was always the movement of peoples from West to East. The ancient caravan routes promoted development of numerous cultures of the existing ethnical groups and their specific skills and creativities. In this concern we should think first about the equivalence of each of the cultures. Besides the vice versa migration, each of them participated the international exchange connected with material and immaterial acquisitions. On one hand, there was a lively trade of valuable goods as silk, gold, silver, glass, ceramics, tools and artifacts. On the other hand, there were influence of immaterial enrichment such as the living conditions, the inner spirit, customs, rituals and rites. A very important highlight is the interchange of life-philosophies as well as world religions. When we think about the most important cities like Chang’an, the ancient capital, we are convinced of the internationality, cross-culturality and especially religious influences that have inspired and motivated the whole life and communication. Without these inspirations, the capital of Chang’an would have never produced such an extraordinary level of skill, artifacts, and a high standard and pattern in creating art and culture. Related to contemporaneous conditions the high-developed Silk Roads are still important ways for the international, even global trade and exchange, as well as for further cultural developments. In the future, the Museum-landscape has more opportunities to consider the museological possibilities in the international cooperation along the Silk Roads than in the past. One of these forms is the Tea-Culture, well known since the Tang-Dynasty, China (618-907 AD), and as a component of culture and civilization. There were lots of tea houses in Japan already in the XV century. They were regarded as particular sites for discussing issues of philosophy, religions, aesthetics, literature, ethics, and, arts of course. The tea-house social role contributed the private communication through tea. For many historical periods the idea of tea and tea-house has acquired a transnational quality and become the object of study by scientists from different countries.