Xinjiang Museum

The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum, or simply the Xinjiang Museum, is a museum in the Saybag District of Ürümqi, the capital of Xinjiang, China. It holds over 40,000 items of various cultural relics and specimens, including 381. 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”.