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China's First Fresco Museum to Be Built
A fresco museum, the first in China, will be built at a temple in the suburbs of Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei Province.
The 1,200-year-old Pilu Temple boasts more than 200 square meters of fine murals drawn in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). These murals feature traditional Chinese culture, history, various peoples, historic and legendary stories.
The murals are as valuable as those at Dunhuang Grottoes in Gansu Province, in Fahai Temple in Beijing, and in Yongle Palace of north China's Shanxi Province, said experts with Shijiazhuang City Bureau of Cultural Heritage.
Sources from the bureau said that the museum will also house thousands of murals unearthed from ancient tombs and collected by museums in the province.
However, the sources said, the first thing to do will be how to restore these damaged murals, because most of them have been eroded.
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