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The Maritime Silk Route Museum () is the name of a museum on Hailing Island,
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The Maritime Silk Route Museum () is the name of a museum on Hailing Island, Yangjiang
Yangjiang (, ), alternately romanized as Yeungkong, is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangdong Province in the People's Republic of China. It borders Maoming to the west, Yunfu to the north, Jiangmen to the east, and looks out to the ...
, Guangdong Province
Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...
, China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. Work on the museum started in late 2004 and the museum opened to the public on 24December 2009.
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 at the end of the 10th century. 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. The museum also has 200 artifacts on display from the wreck.
See also
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* Indo-Pacific
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* List of the largest trading partners of China
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Background
China has become the world's second largest economy by GDP (Nominal) and largest by GDP (PPP).
'China developed a network of economic relations with b ...
* Maritime Silk Road
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* Suez Canal
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