It is open from Wednesday to Sunday from 09: 00-17: 00 (closed at16: 00) and closed on Mondays and Tuesdays (except legal holidays).
In case of temporary closure for holidays and equipment maintenance, please pay attention to the notification message of WeChat WeChat official account of Yunnan Railway Museum or the bulletin board of the museum.
Instructions for entering the library: Please bring your ID card before visiting, scan and show your Yunnan provincial health code and communication big data travel card, and cooperate with the staff to take a normal temperature before entering the library.
Visitors must wear masks all the time when entering the museum, keep a distance of more than 1 meter from others, and cooperate with the epidemic prevention and control work.
If you have fever, cough, shortness of breath and other discomfort during the treatment, please contact the staff in time.
During the period of epidemic prevention and control, those who refuse to cooperate and disturb the order shall be dealt with by the staff in cooperation with the public security department according to law.
This museum was first established in April, 1990. Its predecessor is Kaiyuan, which is the "Yunnan Narrow Gauge Railway History Exhibition Hall" in the waiting room of Kaiyuan Railway Station. By the decision of the provincial government, it was moved to Kunming North Station in February 2003, and the museum was officially completed.
The museum consists of a South Pavilion and a North Pavilion. The South Pavilion is based on the French classical architecture of Yunnan Fuzhan, a century-old Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, and the North Pavilion is a modern building that extracts the elements of the high-speed rail passenger station. A covered bridge consisting of a railway steel frame bridge runs through the two museums and across three tracks of the station, integrating the museum with the operating station. From a bird's eye view, the museum looks like an I-shaped railway track part.
It used to be the waiting room of Kunming North Station, and it was the most lively place in Kunming. People come and go every day. As an important means of transportation in the early days, trains also witnessed the development of Kunming. The newly-built museum, with a total area of 8,360 square meters, contains three railway models, namely meter-gauge, inch-gauge and quasi-gauge, their construction history, and tens of thousands of precious cultural relics, which condenses the century-old history of Yunnan Railway.
Yunnan used to be the only place in the world that operated three different railway gauges: inch gauge, meter gauge and quasi-gauge. Among them, Yunnan-Vietnam Railway is meter gauge (gauge 100mm), and its affiliated Bishi Railway is inch gauge (gauge 600mm), which is also the narrowest railway in the world. Quasi-rail is an international standard rail (gauge 1435mm).
The French platform station in the museum and the ancient cultural relics on the station are quietly telling the excitement along the railway. An abandoned narrow track, from signal lights, typewriters, design drawings, account books, stocks to locomotives and carriages, every exhibit records the century-old vicissitudes and rich cultural accumulation of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway.