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).

The current museum building was built and opened for public on September 20, 2005.

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”.

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