Glimpse of history

And porcelain excavated from the Baijiao No 1 Shipwreck, in Dinghai Bay, Fujian province, is also on display. Beginning in 1989, it was one of the country's first underwater archaeological sites. Several excavations over the years also involved cooperation with Australian counterparts from the University of Adelaide and the Western Australian Maritime Museum.

Zhuang Lina from the National Museum of China's archaeology institution says that over the years they have been pursuing a cross-disciplinary working method, and pushing forward the integration of technology into archaeological excavations, which have become a new tradition of the museum so as to better serve the country and its people.