The Bai Ethnic Group Museum covers a total area of 7,168 square meters, with a building area of 3,500 square meters. It consists of city gates from the Ming and Qing dynasties, a commercial street, a Benzhu Temple (a unique place of worship for the Bai people), a stage, residential buildings in typical Bai styles ("Three Houses with a Central Courtyard" and "Four Houses with Five Courtyards"), a tea house, workshops, a Butterfly Spring, a scaled - down replica of the Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple in Dali, a replica of the Shibaoshan Grottoes in Jianchuan, and a tea mountain.
Constructed with bricks, tiles and stones, the museum is a 1:1 restoration of the typical Bai - style buildings in the "Xizhou" and "Zhoucheng" areas of Dali, Yunnan Province. It reflects the relatively developed culture and economy of the Bai ethnic group in terms of agriculture, handicrafts and commerce.
Inside the museum, there are displays of daily life scenes preserved in their original state, along with 111 collected cultural relics on exhibition.
