Introduction of Sand Therapy Center
Located at Gaochang Road, Turfan, the museum was built in 1965 and relocated to the present site recently. The new museum covers a ground area of 7000 square an exhibition area of 3000 square meters. More than 5 thousand cultural relics are stored in the museum.
On its basic display “Turfan Historical Relics Exhibition” are numerous valuable cultural relics of various periods found in Turfan, which show people the course of history and civilization of Turfan. Some special exhibitions are also held in the museum.
They are the “Ancient Mummies Exhibition”, which shows ancient mummies and their dresses and ornaments that survived the particular climate condition, and the “Rhinoceros Exhibition”, which shows a rhinoceros fossil and a dinosaur fossil of the Jurassic Period about 7000-2400 ten thousand years ago.
