Maritime Silk Route Museum

The Maritime Silk Route Museum (Chinese: 海上丝绸之路博物馆) is the name of a museum on Hailing Island, Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, China.

[2] 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.

[3] 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.

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