A rare aloeswood museum in Beijing

A museum dedicated to aloeswood carvings and related art recently opened in Beijing's Dongcheng district. The private museum showcases a collection of more than 100 pieces of carvings using such resinous wood, as well as raw aloeswood of rare scales, including a giant trunk standing about 10 meters high in the courtyard of the house where it's located.

The items displayed are just a small part of the collection of Shen Chuxuan, the museum's founder.

The collection includes aloeswood products made both in China and other parts of the world, with some of the items dating back several centuries.