The Yunnan Nationalities Museum () is located on the east bank of Dianchi Lake in Kunming,

Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the C ...

, China, next to the Yunnan Ethnic Village. Completed in 1995, it is a comprehensive

ethnology Ethnology (from the grc-gre, ἔθνος, meaning 'nation') is an academic field that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology). ...

museum. Covering an area of over 200 mu, the museum has a building area of 130,000 square meters. It consists of various exhibition halls, office building, report hall, storage and workshops. The ecological environment, religious customs, culture and arts and relics of the ethnic groups of Yunnan are collected in it. The 120,000 items of objects fall into the 16 categories such as ethnic groups, dresses and personal adornment, technique, arts, ecology, ancient books, and strange stones etc.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20111004080601/http://www.chinakunming.travel/show.aspx?aid=4631

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* {{coord missing, Yunnan Museums in Kunming Ethnographic museums in Asia Folk museums in China National first-grade museums of China

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