Miaoxiang Buddhist Kingdom - Yunnan Provincial Museum

When traveling to a new place, be sure to visit the local museum to learn about the local history and culture. Feel the development of modern society with the information passed down from ancient civilizations and mysterious kingdoms. Yunnan Provincial Museum is located at No. 6393 Guangfu Road, Kunming City, Yunnan Province. It covers an area of 150 mu, with a building area of 60,000 square meters and an exhibition hall area of 16,500 square meters. Since its establishment, the museum has been committed to protecting and inheriting excellent historical culture, integrating cultural relics collection, research, display, education, and service. It is the largest cultural relics collection unit in Yunnan Province, as well as the largest and most powerful research and appraisal institution for movable cultural relics in Yunnan Province. It is the largest comprehensive museum in Yunnan Province. In July 1911, the Yunnan Library was renamed "Yunnan Library and Museum". In July 1929, the "Yunnan Library and Museum" was divided into two, and the museum was moved to the Confucius Temple in Kunming and renamed "Yunnan Museum". In the spring of 1959, the "Yunnan Museum" was renamed "Yunnan Provincial Museum". In May 2009, the new Yunnan Provincial Museum was opened. The main building of the Yunnan Provincial Museum has seven floors, with three floors on each wing. It is a pagoda-style building with a total height of more than 40 meters. The Yunnan Provincial Museum has six basic exhibitions that tell the long history of Yunnan from ancient times to the present, and special exhibitions that showcase the fine porcelain collections of the Yunnan Provincial Museum. As of the end of 2022, the Yunnan Provincial Museum has a collection of 230,303 pieces/sets, including 14,337 pieces/sets of precious cultural relics. It has held 99 social education activities and 30 exhibitions. The museum has a collection of more than 200,000 pieces/sets of cultural relics, including bronzes, ancient coins, ceramics, ancient paintings and calligraphy, steles, stamps, and various handicrafts. In 2008, the Yunnan Provincial Museum was rated as one of the first national first-class museums by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.