Xinjiang Museum

National Museum in Ürümqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China

Xinjiang Museum

新疆博物馆

Location| Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
Coordinates| 43°49′10.32″N 87°35′02.29″E﻿ / ﻿43.8195333°N 87.5839694°E﻿ / 43.8195333; 87.5839694

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

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

## Exhibits

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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

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* Inside the museum

* An exhibit at the Xinjiang Region Museum

* Fuxi and, his sister and wife, Nüwa

* Kharosthi script

* 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

* Yingpan man

## See also

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* List of museums in China
* Turpan Museum
* Hotan Cultural Museum

## References

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1. ^ "Xinjiang Regional Museum, Urumqi, China". www.travelchinaguide.com. Retrieved February 17, 2019.

## External links

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