Xin gian g Museum

Xin gian g Museum

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Location	Urumqi,Xin gian g,China
Coordinates	43°49′10.32″N87°35′02.29″E

TheXin gian g Uyghur Autonomous Region Museum,orXin gian g Museum,is located inUrumqi,Xin gian g,China.Its address is 581 Xibei Road, Urumqi.

The museum holds over 40,000 items of various cultural relics and specimens, including 381 national first-grade cultural relics (Quốc gia một bậc văn vật). In May 2008, the Xin gian g Museum was included in the first batch of theNational first-grade museums of China.

General

The Xin gian g 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 Xin gian g", "the exhibit of Xin gian g's ethnic customs", "TheMummiesof the Immortal World - the exhibit of the ancient mummies of Xin gian g, ", “The Historical Monuments – the exhibit of Xin gian g's revolutionary history”.

Gallery

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  Inside the museum
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  An exhibit at the Xin gian g Region Museum
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  Fuxiand, his sister and wife,Nüwa
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  Kharosthiscript
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  The life depicted on the tomb wall (Astana Cemetery)
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  Statuette of aGreeksoldier, from a 3rd-century BCE burial site north of theTian Shan
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  A wooden bar inscribed withOld Uyghurtext
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  Yingpan man

See also

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