Northeast China City Opens Major Museum

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 ◆ Northeast China City Opens Major Museum

A major museum opened Thursday in Jinzhou, a coastal city in Liaoning Province, to exhibit ancient cultural relics and to show the customs and traditions of ethnic groups in northeast China.

Construction of the 15,000 square meter museum, began in April2000 and was completed in November this year, and includes 8,000 square meters of floor space. The display area for the collectionis divided into six different sections.

The museum has a collection of nearly 10,000 cultural relics and has published 16 catalogues covering relics of bronze, jade and china as well as coins and paintings.

The total cost of construction was 20 million yuan (about 2.4 million US dollars).(Xinhua News Agency)(12/21/2001)