The first part focuses on the display of Dunhuang Mogao grottoes (Cave 17).
The second part focuses on the display: cultural relics unearthed from tombs in Han, Three Kingdoms, Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties, mainly including stone tablets, stone pagodas, pottery boxes, pottery ding, tomb animals, lotus bricks, unicorn bricks and so on. Among them, Kirin brick is the rarest. This is a kind of high relief, and the hooves of unicorns are flying in the air like a galloping horse.
The third part focuses on the display of silk brocade, silk, yarn, Luo and other physical objects, which provides sufficient physical objects and references for the Silk Road. In addition, Han bamboo slips, iron and bronze tools and weapons were exhibited, which provided valuable information for the study of political, economic and cultural exchanges between China and the West.
Among them, there are two historical relic showrooms in Dunhuang, which display more than 2,000 precious cultural relics collected locally, including all kinds of pottery, scriptures, currency, stone mills, wooden crying ghosts, bricks and tiles, bronzes, silk, pearl jade and so on, from primitive society to the late Qing Dynasty. The Great Wall Exhibition in Han Dynasty mainly introduces the Great Wall site in Dunhuang, showing unearthed bamboo slips, hemp paper, barley and millet, fire handles and small torches used in beacon towers, and models of the Great Wall site in Han Dynasty. Celebrity painting and calligraphy exhibition room, mainly based on ink left by Dunhuang celebrities and painters. Among them are the famous Dunhuang suicide note unearthed from the Mogao Grottoes, rare Tibetan scriptures in the world, and precious ancient geography, meteorology and military manuscripts, all of which are treasures of the town hall.