Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum lies in No. 581, Northwest Road, Urumuqi, and is the only provincial comprehensive topology museum of the region, as well as the largest institution of cultural relic and specimen collection and protection, scientific research and    publicity and education. Its preparatory office is set up in 1953 and the project starts formally in 1959. The original museum is designed to be an agriculture exhibition hall which is composed of bungalows with epsilon-type structure roofs, and in 1962, it is relocated here and changed into a museum open to public. “Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum” was inscribed by Committee Chief Zhude, a revolutionary of older generations when he inspecting work in Xinjiang.
The new museum has a construction area of 17288 square meters with one underground floor and two floors above the ground. Its main body is of 18.5 meters height and the top elevation of the glass dome is 29.5 meters, and the building plan is basically in linear shape symmetric layout with strong Serindia style and local characteristics of Xinjiang. It has 10 affiliated branches, including Storage Department, Archaeology Department, Exhibition Department, Mass Work Department, Cultural Relics Protection Technology Department, Reference Room, Research Department, Office, Security Section and Logistics Management Department. Currently, it has collected 40000 various historic relics and specimens in history, nation and revolution and so on, of which 400 are of the nation level and takes a percentage of 60% of the whole Xinjiang region.