Maritime Silk Road museum planned in Fujian

The Palace Museum and Shimao Group are going to build a museum focused on the Maritime Silk Road in Quanzhou, Fujian province, where the ancient maritime route began.

The Maritime Silk Road Museum of the Palace Museum is expected to play an important role in the bid to have UNESCO list the maritime route as world intangible heritage, said Shan Jixiang, director of the Palace Museum in Beijing.

Shan spoke at the groundbreaking ceremony on Monday of the contract to build the new museum, to be located in Shishi (stone lion), a city in the municipal region of Quanzhou. It is to house relics from the Maritime Silk Road and hold temporary exhibitions of treasures from the collection of the Palace Museum.