Ethnological Museum of Hainan Province

Occupying an area of 3.73 hectares, the museum was formerly known as the Museum of the Hainan Li and Miao Ethnic Autonomous Prefecture. It was built in 1981 and opened in 1986. It got the current name in 1988 after Hainan became a province. It has the largest collection of exhibits on the culture of the Li ethnic group. Among the exhibits are ancient stone tools of the Li people during the Neolithic Age, totems from the matrilineal clan commune age, shell coins, early clay vessels, planting, fishing, and hunting instruments, canoes, buoy gourds, textures, rattan and bamboo woven articles, musical instruments, and religious objects. Next to the museum is a prototype of an ancient Li village.