Hotan Cultural Museum

Coordinates: 37°06′45″N 79°54′24″E / 37.1125°N 79.9067°E / 37.1125; 79.9067
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Hotan Cultural Museum
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Established1995
LocationHotan, Xinjiang, China
Coordinates37°06′45″N 79°54′24″E / 37.1125°N 79.9067°E / 37.1125; 79.9067
TypeMuseum
Local "mutton fat" nephrite jade displayed in Hotan Cultural Museum lobby.

Hotan Cultural Museum or Hetian Cultural Museum (Chinese: 和田地區博物館) is a museum in Hotan, Xinjiang, China.[1] 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.[2]

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  1. ^ "Hotan Museum". Visit Our China. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
  2. ^ China. Eye Witness Travel Guides. p. 515.