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Yunnan Provincial Museum

Through over 50 years, the Yunnan Provincial Museum has possessed bronzes, ancient money, chinaware, ancient paintings and calligraphies, rubbings from stone inscriptions and stamps amounting to 190, 000 pieces, making it the museum with most cultural relics in Yunnan. They are collected through the ways of archaeological excavation, survey, purchasing and donation. What's most characteristic there is bronze of Dian Culture , Buddhist relics of the periods of Nanzhao and Dali Kingdom as well as various exquisite ethnic relics of modern times.

Feature: It is a provincial comprehensive museum, showing the society, history and culture of Yunnan systematically.

Items on Display:
Bronze
Religious cultural relics
Metal crafts
Jewelry and jade articles
Artistic carving

Opening Time: 09:30 – 17:30
Address: Wuyi Road NO. 118, Kunming

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2011-05-23
The Yunnan Provincial Museum is a regional museum, and is located W. Dongfeng Rd. in Kunming, containing around 50,000 objects in its collections. Among these, historical objects account for around 30,000 items of which there are 7,000 Dian bronzes, revolution...Read More
2011-05-20
Three largest and oldest dinosaur fossils left Kunming, provincial capital of China's southern Yunnan province and arrive in Beijing today, making the new China Science & Technology Museum their new home. The fossils, including China's largest "Ana Chuanjiesau...Read More
2011-05-20
In the high mountains of southwest China's Yunnan Province three rivers, the Nujiang, Jinshajiang and Lancangjiang flow clear and unpolluted through an area of unspoilt natural beauty. The Sanjiang (three rivers) Region is a place of world-class geological ...Read More

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