Yilin Post Station Museum
伊林驿站
The ruins of an ancient post station on the Zhangjiakou-Kulun Great Road and Qing-era postal routes. The museum tells how Erlian grew from a camel-caravan station into an international port.
Yilin was the old name of Erenhot. In the Qing dynasty it was an important post station on the Zhangjiakou-Kulun (today's Ulaanbaatar) trade route, known as the Zhang-Ku Great Road, and on the Mongolian postal routes. Camel caravans and merchants restocked and rested here. The museum stands beside the post station ruins and displays post-station documents, camel-transport equipment and artifacts from merchants trading with Mongolia. It also recounts how a Central Asian expedition team discovered dinosaur fossils here in the 1920s. The museum lies within the Dinosaur Geopark and is usually visited on a combined geopark ticket, so both can be planned for the same half-day.
Opening hours
follows geopark hours