The Yen Bai Provincial Museum is a cultural institution responsible for preserving, researching, propagating, and displaying cultural heritage, documents, and artifacts related to the history of Yen Bai. It also serves as a place to preserve and promote the beautiful cultural values and distinctive identity of the ethnic communities, as well as a venue for conserving and promoting the values of tangible and intangible cultural heritage linked to the development of cultural services and tourism. For international tourists, it is a favored destination to explore the land and people of Yen Bai throughout its historical journey.

To attract locals and tourists for learning, research, and exploration, the Yen Bai Provincial Museum has continuously updated its content and methods of operation, focusing on improving the quality of exhibitions, collections, promotion, and utilization of artifacts. Among its innovations, the Museum has implemented an automatic audio guide application. This multimedia application, which includes audio, images, written materials, along with exhibition layout diagrams, guides visitors through the museum. It is available on both Android and iOS platforms and uses QR code scanning technology. The application supports five languages: Vietnamese, English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese, making it highly convenient for international visitors and enhancing the quality of the audio guide and the discovery of the museum's exhibits.

Additionally, the provincial museum is committed to organizing archaeological surveys and excavations, preventing damage to artifacts, supplementing its collections, and hosting various exhibitions and displays.