introduce

The museum is a multi-functional science museum with regional characteristics of inland desert and arid area, involving ecology and geography. It is a multi-functional science museum integrating related basic research, specimen preservation and popular science education base. The museum was established on the basis of the work of the Xinjiang Comprehensive Scientific Expedition Team of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the 1950s. Since the establishment of the Xinjiang Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1956, it has begun to collect and store biological and soil specimens in the inland arid areas of China represented by Xinjiang. It has a history of 53 years. The collection includes more than 120,000 multidisciplinary specimens of plants, animals, microorganisms, and soils. It is one of the comprehensive herbariums with a large number of specimens in Northwest my country, and is a typical regional representative both internationally and domestically.   


opening hours

The specific business status is subject to the opening of the day