Hotan Museum

Hotan Cultural Museum or Hetian Cultural Museum is a museum in , , . Founded in 1995, it has a range of silk fragments, wooden utensils and jewelry, and mummified corpses of a 10-year-old girl and a 35-year-old man with Eurasian faces, believed to be over 1,500 years old.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Xinjiang, China
  • Also known as: “Hotan Cultural Museum”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Unity Plaza.

Park
Photo: Yoshi Canopus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tuanjie Square or Unity Square is the main public square of , a major town in southwestern near the border with the . is situated 1¼ km east of Hotan Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Khotan and Jiya Township.

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, is a town on the southern Branch of the Silk Road in Province in . was once center of a Buddhist empire. The old capital, Yoktan, is about 10 km west of the current city.

Town
Jiya is a township in the northeastern part of City in , , China in an oasis area on the eastern bank of the in the southwestern part of the Taklamakan Desert. is situated 10 km northeast of Hotan Museum.

Hotan Museum

Latitude
37.11245° or 37° 6′ 45″ north
Longitude
79.90627° or 79° 54′ 23″ east
Open location code
8J9X4W64+XG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4907793324
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q5910941
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Slovenian—“Hotan Museum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متحف خوتان الثقافي”
  • Central Kurdish: “مۆزەخانەی کلتووری ھۆتان”
  • Chinese: “和田博物馆”
  • Chinese: “和田地区博物馆”
  • Indonesian: “Museum Seni Khotan”
  • Russian: “Музей культуры Хотана”
  • Slovenian: “Kulturni muzej Hotan”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include 新疆和田学院 and Hotan Municipal People’s Government.

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