[2025 Korla Attraction] Travel Guide for Bayingol Mongolian Automomous Prefecture Museum (Updated Oct)

The Bazhou Museum, located in Korla, Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is a comprehensive museum showcasing the history, culture, and art of Bazhou. It is a national second-level comprehensive museum. The museum boasts a rich collection of over 10,000 artifacts, including bronzes, ceramics, textiles, mummies, gold and silver wares, and murals. The museum's exhibitions are divided into sections on the history and culture of Bazhou, the history and culture of the ancient Loulan Kingdom, and the eastward migration of the Torgut tribe.

🌈Attraction Features: 1⃣ Architectural characteristics: The design is centered around the Loulan pagoda, complemented by the Mongolian Vajra Sarira pagoda as the architectural base, symbolizing the building's quest and contemplation of the ancient Loulan culture. 2⃣ Loulan Culture: Through the partial scene restoration and character reenactment of the Loulan city gate, streets, houses, small river cemeteries, and ancient tomb gullies, visitors are immersed in the charm of Loulan culture. 3⃣ The Long Journey Home: Through giant paintings and graphic introductions, you will truly understand the historical background of 'The Hero's Journey Home'. Unable to endure the humiliation by Tsarist Russia, the Torghut people, led by their leader Ubashi, resolutely decided to return to the east, traveling tens of thousands of miles, shouting 'Towards the east, never looking back' to return to the motherland. The Torghut's resistance against Tsarist Russia's oppression and enslavement, and their fearless return to the motherland, is not only a significant and touching event in our country's history but also created a world-famous miracle. 🏝Visit Route: Starting from the entrance, the first to third floors are the key visiting areas, in order: 🔅 First Floor: 'Bazhou Historical and Cultural Exhibition', showcasing the historical development of Bazhou and its important hub status on the Silk Road. 🔅 Second Floor: 'Loulan Historical Relics Exhibition', the most mysterious exhibition hall, displaying the cultural relics and mummies of the ancient kingdom of Loulan. Unveiling the mysterious veil of the ancient city of Loulan. 🔅 Third Floor: 'The Journey Home Historical and Cultural Exhibition', through giant paintings, real-life setups, and other means, depicts the tragic journey of the Mongolian Torghut tribe leader Ubashi leading 170,000 people on their journey home, allowing visitors to feel the power of the spirit of returning home. 🕐️Opening Hours: Tuesday to Sunday 10:00-18:00, Closed on Mondays (except national statutory holidays). Free admission, visitors need to present their ID card or other valid documents, limited to one ticket per person. 🚙Transportation to the Attraction: 🔹 The museum is not far from the train station, you can take a bus to the Post Office Building Station, and it's just across the road. 🔹 For those driving themselves, please note that the museum's parking lot may require advance registration, and parking may not be possible without prior notice. 💗Other tips: What's most worth spending time on at the museum are the interpretations of Loulan culture and the display of mummies, as well as the history of the tragic long journey home, which stirs up a fervent passion in those who see it!

Checked into Korla City, and arrived early at the Bazhou Museum located in Korla. Its full name is: Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture Museum. "Bayingolin" is a transliteration of Mongolian language, meaning "rich valley". Mainly visited three floors: First floor of Bazhou Historical and Cultural Exhibition Hall. The display has artistic sense, and the exhibits are also very rich. Pottery jars with local characters carved on them (Figure 11); exquisitely crafted bone shuttles for weaving (Figure 12); distinctive local clothing such as lantern pants, which are still fashionable today (Figure 13); I like the unique lighting fixtures inside (pictures 14, 15); There is also a bowl made of a skull (Figure 17), so exquisite that I have rarely seen before. Second floor exhibition of Lan's historical and cultural heritage. Not fully constructed yet, the video in front of the door provides a comprehensive introduction to the Loulan culture. Since we have already visited the Loulan Museum, we don't really care if it's worth watching or not. Three-layer Eastward Return Historical and Cultural Exhibition This exhibition hall is very rich in content, providing a detailed introduction to that period of history. In January 1771, leader Ubashi and his more than 30,000 households, about 170,000 people, raised their flags and headed east, leaving the Volga River basin where they had lived for nearly a century and a half, returning to what they called the "place where the sun rises." "Only half of them made it to Ili." After returning, the majority of the Tu'erhute people live in the areas of Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Qinghai. In 2004, the day when Wobaxi led his troops to reach Bayinbuluke Grassland in Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture - June 23rd, was designated as the "Eastward Return Festival". (Picture 3) The back of the lobby screen is densely covered with various superlatives of Bayingolin, take a closer look for a more comprehensive understanding of Bazhou: China's largest province China's largest inland basin. China's largest desert China's longest inland river. China's largest inland freshwater lake. China's largest alpine grassland China's only swan nature reserve. China's earliest established natural reserve for wild hoofed animals in high mountains. China's earliest established Wild Bactrian Camel Nature Reserve. China's largest desert poplar forest park. China's largest Populus euphratica forest conservation area. China's largest oil and gas exploration area. China's largest asbestos producing region. China's largest production area of medicinal leech stones. China's most important reed production area. China's most important licorice producing region. China's largest wild ramie production area. The longest graded highway built in a moving desert in the world. These countless "mosts", what kind of "mosts" will be created in the future?