xin jiang sheng tai yu di li yan jiu suo biao ben guan

The museum is a multi-functional science museum with regional characteristics of inland desert and arid regions, involving two major disciplines of ecology and geography, and integrating relevant basic research, specimen collection and popular science education base. The museum was established in the 1950s on the basis of the work of the Xinjiang Comprehensive Scientific Expedition Team of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since the establishment of the Xinjiang Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1956, the collection and collection of biological and soil specimens in inland arid areas of China, represented by Xinjiang, has a history of 53 years. The collection includes more than 120,000 multi-disciplinary specimens such as plants, animals, microorganisms, and soils. It is one of the comprehensive herbariums with the largest collection of specimens in Northwest my country, and has typical regional representation both internationally and domestically.