Chinese museum housing ancient bamboo, wood slips to open to public in 2021 (Xinhua) 09:42, December 21, 2020 LANZHOU, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) A Chinese museum that houses bamboo and wooden slips dating back some 2,000 years is expected to open to the public in 2021. The main structure of the Gansu Jiandu Museum was completed over the weekend in Lanzhou, the capital city of northwest China s Gansu Province. Jiandu in Chinese refers to the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese wrote with brush and ink before paper was invented. The museum s predecessor was a slip sorting and research office set up in the 1970s in the Gansu Provincial Museum. It was turned into a specialized museum in 2012 exclusively for academic study and relics preservation. The museum was scheduled to open to the public for the first time at the end of 2021.
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LANZHOU, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) A Chinese museum that houses bamboo and wooden slips dating back some 2,000 years is expected to open to the public in 2021.
The main structure of the Gansu Jiandu Museum was completed over the weekend in Lanzhou, the capital city of northwest China s Gansu Province. Jiandu in Chinese refers to the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese wrote with brush and ink before paper was invented.
The museum s predecessor was a slip sorting and research office set up in the 1970s in the Gansu Provincial Museum. It was turned into a specialized museum in 2012 exclusively for academic study and relics preservation. The museum was scheduled to open to the public for the first time at the end of 2021.