Xinjiang Museum

Xinjiang Museum
新疆博物馆
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Location	Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
Coordinates	43°49′10.32″N 87°35′02.29″E / 43.8195333°N 87.5839694°ECoordinates: 43°49′10.32″N 87°35′02.29″E / 43.8195333°N 87.5839694°E

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Museum, or Xinjiang Museum, is located in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China. Its address is 581 Xibei Road, Urumqi.^[1]

The museum holds over 40,000 items of various cultural relics and specimens, including 381 national first-grade cultural relics (国家一级文物). In May 2008, the Xinjiang Museum was included in the first batch of the National first-grade museums of China.

General[]

The Xinjiang Museum was established in August 1959. The current museum building was built and opened for public on September 20, 2005.

Exhibits[]

The museum has been set up to show the four major exhibits: "Recover the Western Region's Glory of Yesterday - the exhibit of the historical cultural relics in Xinjiang", "the exhibit of Xinjiang's ethnic customs", "The Mummies of the Immortal World - the exhibit of the ancient mummies of Xinjiang,", “The Historical Monuments – the exhibit of Xinjiang's revolutionary history”.^{[citation needed]}

Gallery[]

Inside the museum
An exhibit at the Xinjiang Region Museum
Fuxi and, his sister and wife, Nüwa
Kharosthi script
Beauty of Loulan, a mummy from Loulan
The life depicted on the tomb wall (Astana Cemetery)
Statuette of a Greek soldier, from a 3rd-century BCE burial site north of the Tian Shan
A wooden bar inscribed with Old Uyghur text