Kunming City Museum



As a local comprehensive museum with an area of 5,000 sq meters, Kunming City Museum opened in
September 1997. In 2002, the Kunming City Museum because of the unique architectural design was rated
as outstanding characteristics of the first architectural design of Yunnan won the first prize.

Kunming City Museum is one of the topology of the comprehensive Museum, it gathers many bronzes items
found in the tombs from the Kunming area with particular blades, belt buckles, drums, and other jewel cases
and figurines. It has five regular exhibition halls and a temporary exhibition hall:  

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.

The highlight of the Kunming City Museum, is the Dali Sutra Pillar. In its own room on the ground floor, it's a 6.5-metre-
high, pagoda-like Song-dynasty sculpture, in pink sandstone; an octagonal base supports seven tiers covered in
Buddha images, statues of fierce guardian gods standing on subjugated demons, and a mix of Tibetan and Chinese
script, part of which is the Dharani Mantra.