Northwest China's Gansu
Province, rich in culture relics and a former thoroughfare on
the ancient Silk Road, is building a series of museums along the
road.
Su Guoqing, director of the provincial cultural relics bureau,
said that a string of museums each with a specific theme have been
or will be built along the section of the Silk Road in the
province.
The Silk Road linked China with Central and West Asia to the
eastern shore of the Mediterranean between the second century BC
and the eighth and ninth centuries AD.
The large amount of cultural relics along the Silk Road
triggered the idea of building a series of theme museums which
include an ancient animal fossil museum, glazed pottery museum,
Dunhuang art exhibition center and Lanzhou earthquake museum.
Next only to Shaanxi and Henan provinces, Gansu has the most
quantity of culture relics in China, with 133,000 ancient sites
discovered.
(Xinhua News Agency February 13, 2006)
