The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Museum, or Xinjiang Museum, is located in Urumqi,
Xinjiang
Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwes ...
,
China
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. 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 ( 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
The designation "national first-grade museum" () is the highest classification for museums in China, as determined by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH).
A first-grade museum generally has a comprehensive collection of art ...
.
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
A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay furt ...
of the Immortal World - the exhibit of the ancient mummies of Xinjiang,", “The Historical Monuments – the exhibit of Xinjiang's revolutionary history”.
Gallery
File:Xinjiang museum urumqi inside 2006.jpg, Inside the museum
File:Xinjiang Regional Museum (23345572703).jpg, An exhibit at the Xinjiang Region Museum
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Fuxi
Fuxi or Fu Hsi (伏羲 ~ 伏犧 ~ 伏戲) is a culture hero in Chinese legend and mythology, credited along with his sister and wife Nüwa with creating humanity and the invention of music, hunting, fishing, domestication, and cooking as wel ...
and, his sister and wife,
Nüwa
Nüwa, also read Nügua, is the mother goddess of Chinese mythology. She is credited with creating humanity and repairing the Pillar of Heaven.
As creator of mankind, she molded humans individually by hand with yellow clay.
In the Huainanzi ...
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Astana Cemetery
The Astana Cemetery () is an ancient cemetery southeast of Turpan, in Xinjiang, China, from the ancient city of Gaochang. It served mainly as the cemetery for the descendants of Chinese settlers in Gaochang from the 4th century to the first h ...
)
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Greek
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*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
soldier, from a 3rd-century BCE burial site north of the
Tian Shan
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File:Wooden Stick with Old Uyghur Alphabet.jpg, A wooden bar inscribed with Old Uyghur text
File:Yingpan man (detail).jpg, Yingpan man