via CGTN, 20 January 2020: New museum on the Maritime Silk Road opens in Fujian province. The original news story also includes a video.
The ancient Maritime Silk Road once served as an essential economic and cultural bridge connecting the East and the West. To disseminate the cultural exchange on the legendary route, a new Maritime Silk Road Museum has been established in Shishi, Quanzhou, southeast China’s Fujian Province.
Covering an area of nearly 11,500 square meters, Shimao Maritime Silk Road Museum features some 2,000 cultural relics from porcelain and tea sets to silk that were famous along the legendary oceanic route.
Li Zhongmou, the curator, told CGTN that in addition to the displays, they are using digital and interactive multimedia to showcase the route’s history. They hope visitors would learn more about the cultures of the Maritime Silk Road here.
Source: New museum in Fujian showcases history of an ancient sea route – CGTN
