Sources from the State Bureau of Cultural Relics (SBCR) say
that relevant departments of China are engaging in a preparatory
work for the construction of a National Museum.
Zhang Wenbin£¬director
of SBCR said that the state will complete the preparatory
work for the National Museum during the "10th Five-year
Plan" period (2001-2005), including choosing site, removal
of old buildings on the site, designing and inviting and appraising
bids. The project is as expected to be kicked off during the
next five-year plan period.
As reported the
national museum will cover a wide range of categories, such
as history, nationality, folklore and customs, arts and international
friendship, etc.
The report also
has it that the Museum of Chinese Revolution and Museum of
Chinese History with their shabby and aging facilities have
been serving as the national museum for a long time. They
can no longer meet the basic requirement for the keeping and
exhibition of more than 500,000 pieces of cultural relics
They can hardly
match the newly-built Shanghai Museum and the History Museum
of Shaanxi province, let alone the first-rate state-of-art
museums in the world. As the circumstance stands it is no
longer in harmony with the profile of our country. So the
establishment of a National Museum is something quite essential
now.
(People's Daily
04/19/2001)
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