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Inner Mongolia Museum 内蒙古博物院Nèiměnggǔ Bówùyuàn

4A scenic area · Hohhot, Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia Museum (内蒙古博物院)
Photo: Mongol, CC BY-SA 3.0
Time needed
2–3 hours
Days to budget
Half a day
City
Hohhot
Region
Inner Mongolia
Type
Culture
Listed as
4A scenic area

About Inner Mongolia Museum

The Inner Mongolia Museum is the region's main museum, and it opened a new building of about 147,000 square metres in Hohhot on a trial basis on 20 June 2025. Its permanent exhibitions cover fossils and prehistoric life, the history of the region's peoples from the Palaeolithic to the Qing dynasty, the Great Wall zone, the region's national intangible heritage, its modern history and its ecology. The collection runs to more than 150,000 items, including dinosaur fossils and artefacts of the region's historic northern peoples.

How to get to Inner Mongolia Museum

It is on Xinhua East Street in Saihan District in eastern Hohhot; closed on Mondays except on public holidays and in peak season.

Nearby

Also within 20 km: Hohhot Sculpture Art Museum 呼和浩特雕塑艺术馆 (under 10 km), Inner Mongolia Museum of Natural History 内蒙古自然博物馆 (under 10 km), Suiyuan General's Yamen Museum 将军衙署 (under 10 km), Little Grass Seed Park 小草种子乐园 (under 10 km), Inner Mongolia Racecourse 内蒙古赛马场 (under 10 km), Daheihe Military Culture Park 大黑河军事文化乐园 (under 10 km).

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