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Yunnan Provincial Museum

Yunnan Provincial Museum is a regional museum, founded in August 1951 and situated in downtown Kunming. It is a provincial level comprehensive museum in China.

The Yunnan Historical Objects Exhibition has strong regional characteristics, elements that distinguish the local cultures from the Central Plains Han-Chinese culture. Using a diversity of excavated objects, the exhibition displays the face of ancient Yunnan. Many of the objects in this exhibition have important scientific and artistic value, and provide material evidence of mankind's social development.

On display in the Museum are also the beautiful costumes of the 25 ethnic minorities in Yunnan. The exhibits, ranging from primitive tools for production to fine articles for daily use, represent vividly the development of their traditional culture.

The Museum features a basic display of History of Yunnan Slavery Society, which exhibits more than 800 relics introducing the bronze culture, social class, social production and folklore of the slavery times. Other displays on special topics include the Primitive Society of Yunnan, Modern Times of Yunnan, and Red Army's Long March via Yunnan, etc. Besides the annual exhibitions, the Museum often organizes temporary special exhibitions at home and abroad, including From Ape to Human, Ancient Chinaware, Ancient Paintings, and so on.