DSR Imaginary Museum is a web museum site where the public can access a large amount of resources in an academic database which have been collected through the "Digital Silk Roads" project by the National Institute of Informatics (NII).

Unlike other professional academic websites, the NII Imaginary Museum provides live, user-friendly, and graphically rich cultural information about the Silk Road. The NII Imaginary Museum will select and publish information about the Crossroads of Eastern and Western Culture of the Silk Road, the Bamiyan Heritage in Afghanistan where diversified cultures met and created a new culture, and other cultural heritage from the DSR Imaginary Museum collection.

The Silk Road is an interconnected series of trade routes from Chang'an (known today as Xi'an) in China to Rome, Italy. It is the name for the trade route where a vast amount of cultural activities were exchanged in Eastern and Western areas. The German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen was the first person to use the term "Seidenstrase" (the German word for Silk Road) describes this route connecting China, West Turkistan and Northwestern India. Another German scholar of Eastern Studies, Albert Hermann called the route from China through Syria and Rome, the Silk Road. Silk Road is presently interpreted in a very broad sense, it was a network and not only was silk traded but there were many exchanges through cultural activities. Three trade routes; Step Road, Oasis Road and Ocean Silk Road were also referred as the Silk Road because of the area's natural features.