Lijiang City Museum

Lijiang Museum is a local comprehensive museum mainly displaying local history and ethnic culture, which is affiliated to Lijiang Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism. The main responsibilities of Lijiang Museum are to collect, organize, study and publicize historical relics in Lijiang; inherit and promote the rich and colorful local ethnic culture; archaeology, excavation, protection and management of cultural relics and historical sites in Lijiang. Lijiang Museum has a collection of more than 12,000 cultural relics, including 423 cultural relics of level 3 or above (67 level 1 cultural relics; 23 level 2 cultural relics; 333 level 3 cultural relics); nearly 3,000 Naxi Dongba cultural relics collection, which is the museum with the most complete and rich collection of Dongba cultural relics in the world. Our museum has a rich collection of Tibetan Buddhist paintings, as well as precious cultural relics such as the Ming Dynasty Mu Zeng cursive calligraphy center scroll, the modern and contemporary Xu Beihong double horse picture vertical scroll, the modern and contemporary Zhang Daqian ink lotus picture, the modern and contemporary Qi Baishi longevity peach vertical scroll, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty black mud double-eared water ripple flat-bottomed jar, and the Ming Dynasty Baoshanzhou seal. It was named a national third-level museum by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage in May 2013. After more than 30 years of development and growth, Lijiang Museum has made remarkable achievements and has won honorary titles such as the Yunnan Province's First National Movable Cultural Relics Survey Outstanding Group, Yunnan Province Civilized Unit, and National Cultural System Reform Advanced Unit.