The Yeren (Wild Man) Museum in Muyu town documents the long history of reported sightings of a large, bipedal, ape-like creature in the Shennongjia forests — China's most persistent cryptid. The exhibits cover the physical evidence collected over decades of investigation, the local folklore traditions surrounding the creature, and the scientific expeditions that were mounted to investigate. The museum is small but takes its subject seriously rather than treating it as pure entertainment.
Whether or not you believe in the yeren, the museum offers a genuine insight into how a remote forest community — isolated from the lowlands for centuries by difficult terrain — developed a distinct set of beliefs about the strange animals in the surrounding forest. The golden snub-nosed monkeys, whose range overlaps with the yeren sighting areas, were not formally documented by Western science until 1897, which adds a layer of plausibility to the local tradition of unusual large primates in these forests.