Yunnan Provincial Museum

Introducing Yunnan Provincial Museum
With an area of 60,000 square meters, Yunnan Provincial Museum is the largest comprehensive museum in Yunnan. It has rich collections of more than 200,000 pieces culture relics, including bronze ware, ancient coins, ceramics, paintings, stone steles, various handicrafts. As an important window open to the outside world and a spiritual home of all ethnic groups in Yunnan, is now playing an important role in publicizing the outstanding Chinese cultural heritage and promoting the national unity.

Yunnan Provincial Museum Fast Facts
• Chinese Name: Yun Nan Sheng Bo Wu Guan 云南省博物馆
• Best Time to Visit: All year around
• Recommended Visiting Hours: About 1 to 3 hours
• Things to Do: Photography, Archaeology, Yunnan History and Culture
• Opening Hours: 09:00-17:00 Tuesday to Sunday
• Entrance Fee: Free
• Address: No. 6393 Guangfu Road, Guandu District, Kunming, Yunnan Province

What to expect at Yunnan Provincial Museum

The Yunnan Nationalities Museum, adhering to the core value of museum education and the tenet of serving the general public and building China into a strong nation of socialist culture, has attracted more than 6 million visitors with various exhibitions, extracurricular activities for high school students, thematic lectures, community-based family education sessions, school-museum and inter-museum cooperation, construction of patriotism and popular science bases, public services, thematic education programmers, volunteer team building efforts and museum membership since its establishment.

The Yunnan Provincial Museum houses an important collection of early bronzes (Warring States through Western Han period) that were excavated from royal burials at Shizhai Shan and other locations in the vicinity of Lake Dian. This part of Yunnan, whose people and language were not originally Han Chinese, had been ruled by an independent Dian kingdom from about 500 BC; bronzes from this period through middle Western Han (about 100 BC) are unique to the region, and share many characteristics with bronze artifacts of Southeast Asia. Their decoration, with predominant themes of animal combat and hunting, was also influenced by artistic styles of the Eurasian steppe.

How to get to Yunnan Provincial Museum
• By bus: take bus No. 169, 252, A12, or D28 to Xin Baoxianghe Station; take bus No. 169, 252, A12, or D28 to Xin Baoxianghe Station; take bus No. 169, 174, 232, 252, 253, 261 or A12 and get off at Guandu Qu Zhengfu Station.
• By Metro: take Metro Line 1 and get off at Xingyao Lu Station, and then take Bus Z84 to Fulukou Station or walk around 1.7 km to the museum.
• Rent a car/bus from GGC to enjoy a hassle free private transfer from hotels in Kunming to Yunnan Provincial Museum.

Additional travel advice on Yunnan Provincial Museum
• The museum is closed on Mondays expect for public holidays.
• The following items are not permitted in the Museum: selfie sticks, tripods, video recorders, knives, lighters and other dangerous items.