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[[File:Photo of the front of the Hotan Museum.jpg|thumb|250px|Entrance to the Hotan Cultural Museum.]]
[[File:Photo of the front of the Hotan Museum.jpg|thumb|250px|Entrance to the Hotan Cultural Museum.]]
[[File:Large mutton fat jade displayed in Hotan Cultural Museum lobby.jpg|thumb|250px|Local "mutton fat" [[nephrite]] jade displayed in Hotan Cultural Museum lobby.]]
[[File:Large mutton fat jade displayed in Hotan Cultural Museum lobby.jpg|thumb|250px|Local "mutton fat" [[nephrite]] jade displayed in Hotan Cultural Museum lobby.]]
'''Hotan Cultural Museum''' or '''Hetian Cultural Museum''' is a museum in [[Hotan]], [[Xinjiang]], [[China]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.visitourchina.com/guide/hotan_museum.htm|title=Hotan Museum|publisher=Visit Our China|accessdate=2012-01-16}}</ref> 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 Indo-European faces,{{clarify|date=January 2012}} believed to be over 1,500 years old.<ref name="Witness">{{cite book|title=China|publisher=Eye Witness Travel Guides|pages=515}}</ref>
'''Hotan Cultural Museum''' or '''Hetian Cultural Museum''' is a museum in [[Hotan]], [[Xinjiang]], [[China]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.visitourchina.com/guide/hotan_museum.htm|title=Hotan Museum|publisher=Visit Our China|accessdate=2012-01-16}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Witness">{{cite book|title=China|publisher=Eye Witness Travel Guides|pages=515}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 21:29, 6 June 2012

Entrance to the Hotan Cultural Museum.
Local "mutton fat" nephrite jade displayed in Hotan Cultural Museum lobby.

Hotan Cultural Museum or Hetian Cultural Museum 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]

See also

References

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