As a cultural landmark building founded in 1997, Yuxi museum is comprehensive museum integrating collection, exhibition, scientific research, publicity and exchange. This museum, whose main buildings show unique connotation in novel style, covers land area of 40 Mus, and building area of 12,096 square meters. The museum area boasts clean and beautiful environment. Equipped with fully-functional facilities, the venue consists of various areas, such as for display, administrative office, collection warehouse, comprehensive service, business and scientific research, garden-type ecological greening, and visitors’ leisure and evacuation.
Furnished with over 10000 collections, this museum provides seven thematic standing exhibitions. By dint of novel display concepts and modern acousto-optic and electrical technologies, they present uniquely-designed and elaborately-made collections, with the support of various forms, such as sculpture, touch screen, film&TV, simulation scene, and interaction with audience. On this basis, they display Yuxi’s natural and humanistic historical look in an all-round manner, deeply explore local humanistic resources, and highlight local cultural characteristics. As a result of this, arrays of high-quality and fascinating collections are displayed to the public.
This museum positively explores the new approach to social education, unceasingly expands service space, and increases service projects. Apart from regular exhibitions, the museum holds and introduces all kinds of temporary exhibitions every year, and meanwhile organizes multiple thematic exhibitions, which go deep into grassroots and provide services for all sectors of the society. During the vocations, such as Summer/Winter vocation, 5.18 International Museum Day and International Children’s Day, this museum organizes a variety op activities, such as exhibition, experience, lecture and symposium. Since being open to the public for free in 2009, the museum has attracted a growing number of audiences and produced an increasingly remarkable effect.
In 2009, this museum was named as “Class-Ⅱ National Museum” by State Administration of Cultural Heritage. Meanwhile, this museum has been successively named as ”Yunnan Patriotism Education Base” by Party Committee of Yunnan Province, and as “Yunnan Base for Universal Education of science and Technology” and “Civilized Unit of Yunnan Province”by People’s Government of Yunnan Province.