Kunming Museum
As a local comprehensive museum with an area of 5,000 sq meters, Kunming Museum has five regular exhibition halls and a temporary exhibition hall. The exhibitions in the five regular halls are as follows:
Dinosaur Fossil Exhibition:
Samples and models of dinosaurs are exhibited, imitating the process of the evolvement and distinction of dinosaurs.
Bronze Culture Exhibition
Displaying the bronze culture in Dianchi District from the Spring and Autumn Periods (770BC-476BC) and the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-25AD).
Sutra Exhibition of Dizang Temple
The sutras in Dizang (the Bodhisattva of Ksitigarbha) Temple are reputed as the masterwork of the Yunnan culture. They are also the major historic and cultural sites under the national protection.
Kunming City Exhibition
The "Kunming: a Historic and Cultural City" Exhibition includes two exhibition halls: the History Hall and the New Era Hall, demonstrating the history and culture, the scenery and the major achievements China has made in the recent 20 years.
Temporary exhibitions are usually held at the Temporary Hall. Some large-scale exhibitions are the Mao Zedong's Mementos Exhibition, the Paintings and Calligraphies Exhibition of some outstanding local artists, the Paintings and Calligraphies of celebrities in Yunnan and the Clothes Exhibition of the Minority Women in Yunnan.