Maritime Silk Route Museum

Maritime Silk Route Museum

The Maritime Silk Route Museum (Haishang Sichouzhilu Bowuguan simplified Chinese: 海上丝绸博物院) is the name of a museum on Hailing Island, Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, China. Work on the museum started in late 2004 and the museum opened to the public on 24 December 2009.[1]

The museum was built to hold 300,000 artifacts as well as having the facilities necessary to house pieces of shipwrecks in water tanks. The main exhibition is the Nanhai 1 shipwreck, a wooden vessel which sank just off Hailing Island.[2] The Nanhai 1 is housed in the Crystal Palace in a water tank, one of main features for the museum which is the only museum in Asia with these facilities for underwater display.[3] The museum also has 200 artifacts on display from the wreck.

References

  1. ^ "Guangdong Maritime Silk Road Museum". Travel China Guide. http://www.travelchinaguide.com/cityguides/guangdong/yangjiang/maritime-silk-road-museum.htm. Retrieved 11 February 2011. 
  2. ^ "China Maritime Silk Road Museum" (Newsletter). China Heritage Newsletter, No 1. China Heritage Project, The Australian National University. March 2005. http://www.chinaheritagenewsletter.org/articles.php?searchterm=001_maritimesilk.inc&issue=001. Retrieved 10 February 2011. 
  3. ^ "Guangdong Marine Silk Road Museum Opens". Confucius Institute. http://www.chinese.cn/treasure/en/article/2009-12/29/content_97314.htm. Retrieved 11 February 2011. 

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