The museum is located on a little peninsula in a big pond. There is also an open air part to the museum at 300 m from the main building, where you find houses in the styles of the tribes. There is also a shop selling clothes, bags, and other high hill tribe products.

The Highland People Discovery Museum (Thai: พิพิธภัณฑ์เรียนรู้ราษฎรบนพื้นที่สูง), formerly known as the Tribal Museum, is an ethnographic museum in the Mueang Chiang Mai District of Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand, showing the life of Thailand's minority hill tribes.