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 for some quiet indoor relaxation in Nepal experiencing Nepal's multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-religious and multi-lingual diversities. One of such museums is the National Ethnographic Museum which presents a kaleidoscope image of Nepal to the visitors.

In an effort to transform rich culture to the future generation as well as for the tourists to have a look at it right at the heart of the capital- 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) 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 centre 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).