The Museum of Autonomous Region

The Museum of Autonomous Region is Xinjiang municipality cultural relics store up and science research center. The museum was built in 1953. Staff are made up of Uygur, Kazak, Hui, Mongol, Xibe, Manchu, Han, etc, nationalities' cultural relics workers. Affiliated departments have preservation, exhibition, restoration, study work as well as cultural relics team.

The museum architecture has local ethnic characteristics in Xinjiang, green round arched hallway is 18 meters high, the facade of the hallway, inner wall, dome decorated white gypsum, architecture area is almost 17 thousand square meters, exhibition area is 7,800 square meters. Ever since establishment, various nationalities cultural relics workers have been carrying on large-scale's cultural relics general investigation and stress grave's science excavation activities, get a series of important scientific and research results, store up unearthed historic cultural relics in Xinjiang, national cultural relics and revolution cultural relics 50,000 pieces, held different types Xinjiang historic cultural relics display exhibition ten times , recepted China and foreign travelers are over a million. At present, often exhibit Xinjiang historic cultural relics display, Xinjiang nationalities folk customs exhibition, Xinjiang thousand Buddha murals, Xinjiang unearthed cultural relics exhibition, Xinjiang past dynasties fabrics exhibition, Xinjiang ancient corpses exhibition, etc. It is the center of Xinjiang cultural relics preservation, restoration and scientific research, visit. Xinjiang historic cultural relics exhibition, according to primary society, slave society and feudal society several development processes, reappear the historic development conditions in Xinjiang from primary society to 1840 A.D.. Among the displayed 1,000 or more pieces Xinjiang cultural relics, has human cranium fossil which has ten thousand years till now, have many stoneware, painted pottery and later every historic periods' cotton textile, silk fabrics, woodenware, ironware, copperware, jade objects, clay sculpture, wooden carvings, silk , murals and ancient coins, documents died out archaic xinjiang every nationality characters such as Qielu characters, Huihu characters, Qiuci characters, Yanqi characters, Chahetai character, Tibetan character and Han character, etc wooden book, official dispatch, there are also important media which show China and West economic, cutural communion, for example Persian silver coins, Eastern Roman Gold coins, etc. Xinjiang nationalities folk customs display introduced Uygur, Kazak, Mongol, Kirgiz, Hui, etc customs of the 12 nationalities in Xinjiang systemly, reflecting Xinjiang nationalities, folklore research new achievement. Among the Xinjiang ancient corpses exhibition, exhibited a “Loulan sleeping beauty” corpse which is earlier than Changsha Mawangdui female corpse, is very attracted people. This ancient corpse which is 3,800 years till now is the known earliest, well preserved. Furthermore, there are ancient corpses in Primary society, Tang Dynasty and Han Dynasty, etc historic periods; these ancient corpses not only have Hans but also minonation; have male corpses, also have female corpses; have one person, also have husband and wife buried in one tomb. They were dug from long historic tunnel, make people understand the life of the ancient people.

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