Chinese becomes more and more popular among foreign people, and many of them have traveled to learn Chinese in China during these years. Yunnan province is a good place to go when you decide to study in China, and it is a good chance to know local culture in Yunnan province. If you get packed and travel to Yunnan province, you will know that a new provincial museum will be built and put into use in 2013.

Chinese school in China will give you the information about this newly constructed museum. The land area of the new Yunnan Museum is about 150 mu (1 mu = 0.06666667 hectare), and the main building of the museum is about 50,000 square meters. The appearance of the new museum is like the Chinese character “回”. The side length of the museum is about 110 meters, and it is about 41 meters high. If you have ever gone to the old one when you were learning Mandarin Chinese in Kunming, you would know the new museum would be about three times compared to the old one.

Teachers in qualified Mandarin program in Kunming will show you that the new Yunnan Museum is near the famous Guandu Ancient Town. Yunnan province has invested 500,000,000 Yuan to build a large public cultural infrastructure, which is a new pavilion of Yunnan Museum. You will know from your free Chinese lessons that the new pavilion is under construction and it will be capped at the end of this month. Four corners of the main building will be made into lotus pond, outdoor exhibitor area and two sink style courtyards.

When you go to the place after you learn Chinese language in China, you may think the new one seems have no difference from the other building. However, if you take a closer look at it when you learn Mandarin in China, you will be surprised by it. The new museum applies concise modern structure to build an elegant and picturesque disorder figure of folded face style to inflect the appearance of the famous Stone Forest in Yunnan province. The outside of the museum is made by perforated metal, which shows the charming image of Kunming under sunshine. I

If you go to the new museum after you learn Mandarin in Kunming, you will be attracted by its hardware conditions, such as the warehouse facilities, exhibition hall conditions and design concepts. The newly built museum will meet the requirements of how a modern museum is established, and it should also focus on some high- tech technique in preservation of cultural relics and exhibition hall conditions. Compared to the old one at Wu Yi Road, warehouse for cultural relics in the new one will increase to 7,000 square meters, which will be three times of the old one, and there will also be backup warehouse in the new museum.

There are also other kinds of high- tech elements applied in the constructing of the new Yunnan museum, but you can only experience them after you study Chinese in Kunming in 2013. The touch screen is one of those high- tech elements applied in the new Yunnan Museum. You can use it to search for many exhibiting articles or collections in the museum; and you can also know the stories, background information and historical meanings of the cultural relics you are searching besides the appearance of the historical relics. It will help you solve the problem of checking that kind of information on Internet or books.

Dai Zong Pin said, “Once finished, the new museum can compete with any museums in the world.” The new Yunnan Museum will be the best one all over China. It is also introduced that after capping project at the end of this month, the inner decoration and exhibitions will begin in 2012 and it will be opened to the public in 2013. At that time, you will be fully captured by the exquisite design of the new museum’s appearance and its inner exhibitions. You can also learn some basic elements of high- tech technique. After day of visiting the museum, the Guandu Ancient Town will be your choice of tasting delicious Yunnan snacks and learning about traditional culture in Yunnan province.