The Dunhuang Museum is a comprehensive local museum to exhibit the historical relics, folk arts local human and geographic features, and natural resources. The museum boasts a rich collection of over 4000 pieces of precious cultural and historical relics, mainly including: earthen wares, stone wares, inscriptions, the inscribed bamboo slips in Han Dynasty, silk, brazen and iron wares, ancient money, jewelry, wooden wares, calligraphy and paintings, etc. among them, the most precious collection are the "Dunhuang Posthumous Papers" unearthed in the Library Cave of Mogao Grottoes. There also treasured some Tibetan sutra, ancient classics about geography, military, and climate, which are all very precious and rarely seen in the world. These collections are the important access for the visitors to get a feeling about the history and culture of Dunhuang.
