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Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture Museum 大理白族自治州博物馆Dàlǐ Báizú Zìzhìzhōu Bówùguǎn
4A scenic area · Dali, Yunnan
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Dali
- Region
- Yunnan
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture Museum
The prefecture's main museum, opened in 1986 beside the Xi'er River in Xiaguan, in a building that blends Tang-style architecture with Bai house forms. Its displays focus on the history of the Nanzhao and Dali kingdoms and on Bai culture, with further galleries on bronze-age cultures, ceramics, Buddhist art, Dali marble, local historical figures and painting and calligraphy, drawn from a collection of about 16,800 items.
How to get to Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture Museum
In Xiaguan, Dali's modern city centre, about 30 minutes by taxi from Dali Old Town.
Nearby
- Dali Old Town & Erhai Lake 大理古城与洱海 10 km
Bai courtyards, old stone gates and lakeside bike rides beneath the Cangshan peaks - Weishan Ancient Town 巍山古城 40 km
An unhurried Ming grid town south of Dali, where the Nanzhao kingdom was born
Also within 20 km: Fotu Pagoda (Snake Bone Pagoda) 佛图寺塔 (under 10 km), Taihe City Ruins and Nanzhao Dehua Stele 太和城遗址与南诏德化碑 (under 10 km), Hongsheng Temple Pagoda 弘圣寺塔 (10 km), Tianlong Babu Film City 天龙八部影视城 (10 km), Dali Ocean World 大理海洋世界 (10 km), Kublai Khan Stele, Dali 元世祖平云南碑 (10 km).
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