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Nanjing City, Jiangsu, China The Nanjing Museum
Just inside the eastern city walls on Zhongshan Donglu, the Nanjing Museum
(Nanjing Bowuguan) houses an array of artifacts from Neolithic times right
through the Communist period. The main building was constructed in 1933 in the
style of an ancient temple with yellow-glazed tiles, red-lacquered gates and
columns. An interesting exhibit is the burial suit made of small rectangles of
jade sewn together with silver thread, dating from the Eastern Han Dynasty
(25-225 AD) and excavated from a tomb discovered in the city of Xuzhou in
northern Jiangsu. In 2004 we spent a day in the museum. The touusands of
exhibits will reward you for the time spent there.
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