Photos of Silk Route Museum

The Silk Road Museum is located in Jiuquan City, an important town on the Silk Road in the Hexi Corridor. The main building in the style of the Han Dynasty is sturdy and simple, and three large exhibition halls display tens of thousands of historical relics of various types, spanning five thousand years of history. The scale is rare in the west and even the whole country. The Silk Road Museum has three large exhibition halls, "Jade Road", "Human Glory and Dreams", and "The Glory of Chinese Civilization". The architectural layout coincides with the traditional overland Silk Road. The content of the exhibition is rich and detailed, with a large number of cultural relics, pictures and words, to show visitors the profound cultural grace of the "Silk Road" civilization in the Chinese civilization. In the exhibition hall, in the form of cultural relics, murals, pictures, texts, models, sand tables, sculptures, etc., it records and displays in detail the human beings in various regions and countries for thousands of years, migration, grazing, business and cultural exchanges, religions along the Silk Road. history of dissemination and the inevitable slaughter of war. The whole exhibition is novel in design, diverse in means and rich in content. The exhibits include a massive collection of fossils, jade, bronze, iron, wood, silk, porcelain, sculpture, embroidery, calligraphy and painting. From the late Neolithic Age to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, each historical period is successively inherited.