Alshaa Museum

Alshaa Museum
阿拉善博物馆

Address: Elute East Road, Bayanhot town, Alshaa Left Banner, Alshaa League, Inner Mongolia autonomous region
Opening hours: 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Admission: Free
Tel: 0483-8331184

Established in 1997, the Alshaa Museum is a comprehensive institution that emphasizes history and art, combining collection, exhibition, research, public education, and cultural exchanges. The museum has 5,000 square meters of exhibition space and a collection of over 32,700 artifacts.

The museum features four permanent exhibitions: the Populus Euphratica of the Great Desert Wonderland of the Northern Frontier, the History Exhibition of Alshaa; the Hometown of the Camels and Talents, the Exhibition of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Alshaa; the Historical Carving of the Great Desert, Mutual Learning between East and West, a Special Exhibition of Alshaa Rock Art; and the Ecological Protective Screen in the Mysterious Desert, an Exhibition of Alshaa's Natural Environment Changes.

There is also a temporary exhibition hall displaying over 2,000 items.

These exhibits portray Alshaa's rich historical and cultural heritage, captivating natural landscapes, and unique local traditions. They reflect the dawn of human civilization through prehistoric handprints, reveal the evolution of northern nomadic cultures through petroglyphs, and trace the Silk Road's connectivity via Han Dynasty (206 BC – AD 24) bamboo slips.

Visitors can move through history, from learning about the secrets of the Xixia Dynasty (1038 – 1227) through the ruins of the Heishui Pagoda to the modern-day advancements of China's space program.