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Yunnan Provincial Museum is a provincial-level museum strongly featured by its comprehensive collections
Located in the center of Kunming City, at the crossing of West Dongfeng Road and Wuyi Road, Yunnan Provincial Museum is a comprehensive museum. With multitudinous material objects of anthropology, ethnology and archaeology about Yunnan, it is an important base for anthropology study and education of patriotism and historical materialism, and an ideal place for tourists to understand Yunnan.
Yunnan Provincial Museum was completed and put into use in 1964. It is a 40-meter-tall building of tower style. The main building has seven stories and the buildings on both sides are three-storied. From the first to the third floor are the exhibition halls covering an area of 4,200 square meters. In the front there are 12 round columns. The golden poles and red stars on the roof are shining brightly.
Currently, over 60,000 items of historical relics, revolutionary relics, ethnical relics and artifacts are collected in the Museum. Among the exhibited relics, there are more than 1,000 precious relics, including the teeth fossils of Yuanmou Ape-man 17 million years ago, and the bronze wares from Warring State Period to Western Han Dynasty unearthed in Jinning, Jiangchuan, An’ning, Kunming and Xiangyun. Some of the bronze wares are very important in Bronze Art History of China.
Among the exhibitions of the collected relics, Yunnan Slavery Society and Customs of the Ethnical Minorities of Yunnan are frequently displayed. While various excellent bronze productivity tools, articles for daily use, arms, musical instruments, and religion articles are displayed in the former. The life, festivals and customs of the 25 ethnical minorities are displayed in the latter.