The museum is growing, having new space as its old building was connected to a new, in year 2000. It's on the 3rd floor (there's an elevator); whether weather hot or rainy, it's convenient and climate-controlled! The restaurant on the ground floor, Cabbages and Condoms, is widely recognized as one of the best in town. The museum's gift-shop offers hill-tribe motif souvenirs, some from small factories but others consigned from villages, drawings on mulberry paper, cannabis-fiber hats, relevant books, cards, jewelry, clothing, pouch-bags, recordings of tribal music and video cassettes (to be replaced with VCDs) on hill-tribe people, herbal ointments, PDA postcards and a good variety of other theme-oriented items.

Each of the six tribal displays includes craftwork from daily life - things you might find in tribal villages, though not put out on view as here, with attractive black and white murals behind. Housing styles, tools and utensils are available for inspection. Further displays of traditional hunting, fishing and agricultural equipment are complimented by a bamboo room (with a 2 meter diameter threshing basket and an interesting specimen of giant bamboo, the world's largest grass, at the center) joined with another on tribal clothing - cross-stitch, appliqu?, head-gear, and pouch-bags. The large entrance-room (behind the pay-point) has an opium related display, giving an accurate explanation of the real, global picture, in response to the exotic flavor attributed to the once opium-using region, in much popular media. 5500 years of history are reviewed, and a question posed: why focus on repression of opium, but not tobacco and alcohol.

This museum is open 8:30 to 6 p.m. and 10 to 6 weekends and holidays, or by special request and prior arrangement, especially for group tours.