The most famous mummy museum in China, not for the faint-hearted

The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum houses 32,000 items, including silk, wool, cotton, and linen textiles (such as a large number of Han and Tang dynasty silk fabrics, carpets, felts, ribbons, embroideries, and other ancient woolen fabrics), documents and bamboo slips written in various scripts (Chinese, Uighur, Kharosthi, Tocharian, Sanskrit, ancient Khotanese, Tibetan, Arabic, Sogdian, etc.), wooden carvings, clay sculptures, and paper and silk paintings of figures, flowers, and birds from the Jin and Tang periods, bronze artifacts with Scythian cultural characteristics, as well as ethnic costumes and handicrafts. The Xinjiang Autonomous Region Museum has a famous mummy museum, but the images are somewhat eerie, so no photos are taken. Location: No. 132, Northwest Road, Urumqi City. Transportation information: Take bus routes 7, 51, 52, 66, 68, 303, 305, etc., and get off at the museum station.