After you've had your fill of watching the mountains, touring the monuments and ransacking the shopping centers, there's nothing like browsing around the museums in Kathmandu for some quiet indoor relaxation taking in the ethnic diversity of one of the newest countries on Planet Earth, Nepal's multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-religious and multi-lingual population. There are various museums in a few towns across Nepal, however the National Ethnographic Museum in Kathmandu, which presents a kaleidoscope of images of Nepal is very interesting.

In an effort to inform the World about the richness of the culture, the Nepal Tourism Board and Nepal National Ethnographic museum has set up a permanent exhibition of eleven different ethnic communities (the Thakali, the Sherpa, the Tamang, the Gurung, the Rai, the Limbu, the Chepang, the Jyapu of Newar group, the Magar, the Sunwar, and the Tharu).  The location is in the diorama hall at the Tourist Service Center in Bhrikutimandap.

A periodic exhibition of individual ethnic community has been showcased in the ethnographic itemization of entire life cycle in ethnic exhibition hall. The Museum aims to function as a living resource center to inform and educate both Nepalese and foreign visitors/tourists interested to know and learn about Nepal's architecture, and culture (customs life styles and folkways).