Silk Route Museum
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The Silk Route Museum is located in Jiuquan[citation needed], Gansu Province, China along the Silk Road[citation needed], which connected Rome to China and was used by Marco Polo. It is built over the tomb of the Xiliang King in Gansu Province.[citation needed] The company webiste lists it as being associated with Yasheng Group, which has subsidiary Yasheng Eco Trade, renamed from Vortex Resources, with transfer agent David Korem, and Michael Larivee as vice president, according to its web site.[1]
The exhibition area is over 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2).[citation needed] It exhibits antiquities from the Silk Road.[citation needed] Over 35,000 antiques in the famous Jade Road collection, and the largest subterranean art gallery, The Wei Jin Tombs.[citation needed] It also contains hundreds of local historical sites on the Hexi Corridor of ancient China.[citation needed]
The museum was founded by Mei Ping Wu,[citation needed] and all work on it is by volunteers.[citation needed] Wu, CEO, chief architect,[citation needed] and designer of the museum,[citation needed] The museum is committed to promoting understanding between East and West by focusing on the study of the extraordinary range of cultures array long the Silk Road.[citation needed]
Most tombs are of past families, housing bodies of three or four generations, and currently Grave 6 and Grave 7 are open for tourism with more to be developed responsibly in the future.[citation needed]
Silk Route Museum exhibitions
Exhibitions include displays of art, tools, and fossils covering the Jiuquan period, and the earliest evidence of central Asian civilization.[citation needed] In the Xiliang Hall, master pieces of jade work of Neolithic origin.[citation needed] A jade market open to local and outside traders, as well as, auctions and the Moon Light Cup of Jiuquan.[citation needed] The rotating Silk Road gallery sponsored by the Silk Road Fund sponsors art contests to promote art in village schools.[citation needed]
The show pieces possess the characteristics from the pre-historical culture to Ming and Qing dynasties, which represent the history, politics, economy, science and technology, cultural arts, husbandry production, religious belief and daily customs from thousands of years ago.[citation needed]
References
- ^ SEC FILING for Yasheng Group
See also
External links
- Museum website Template:En icon
- Tourism Guide 2009
- First Annual Silk Road Museum International Arts Competition 2009
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