Xinjiang Museum
A great museum with an impressive collection of Silk Road treasures and the famous Urumqi mummies (3000 years old). These cover different relics and clothes from their 13 minority groups; for the record, there are 55 minorities in China. I was most impressed by the beauty of the clothes and the way the exhibits are displayed, small rooms with the main artifacts and clothes of every minority. Here's a sample for ya, it belongs to the Uzbek nationality, who apart from believing in Islam, speak a Turkish language whose alphabetical writing is based in Arabic.
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more 
