Xinjiang Science and Technology Museum, Science museum in Saybagh District, China.

The Xinjiang Science and Technology Museum occupies a 17-storey main building at 686 Xinyi Road in Saybagh District, Urumqi. Its exhibition centre covers four above-ground floors and about 11,120 square metres, with halls on ecology, basic physics and electromagnetism, human health, water, meteorology, earthquake and fire safety, plus a frontier-technology section showing BeiDou, gene editing, the Chang'e lunar programme, FAST, supercomputers and the Jiaolong submersible.

In 1978, botanist Zhang Xuezhu and 16 others proposed a science museum during a regional science conference; the project was approved in 1980. Construction began in 1983, and the museum opened in October 1985 as a gift for the 30th anniversary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. A 2005 expansion raised the floor area to about 27,000 square metres and added a 17-storey main building; the new halls opened in July 2008.

The museum runs guided tours in both Mandarin and Uyghur, with 36 interpreters on staff as of 2013. It stages temporary exhibitions and events around World Earth Day, World Meteorological Day and Disaster Prevention Day, as well as Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. In 2014 it submitted and won approval for the Uyghur-language popular science reader "300 Tips for Everyday Life".

The museum has multiple exhibition areas with laboratories and demonstration spaces where visitors can observe hands-on activities. Allow enough time to move through different sections and engage with the interactive displays at your own pace.

The 1985 opening was timed as a gift for the 30th anniversary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The original building had a 500-seat cinema and a 300-seat lecture hall with four-language simultaneous interpretation. The cinema and guesthouse were demolished in the 2005 expansion, which raised the main building to 17 floors.