Construction is underway on the first feature gallery for stone carving in northeast China's Shaanxi province. The gallery will be situated in the famous Beilin Museum, which is also known as the Stele Forest Museum in the ancient city of Xi'an. The new gallery will cover an area of nearly 8,000 square meters. The underground will become the storeroom for stone relics. Two floors above ground will be used to display the stone Buddhas and to reserve the museums collection of ancient prints. The building once served as the Confucian temple in Xi'an. The museum's collection of ancient stone carvings numbers more than 35-hundred. The earliest dates back to the Han Dynasty more than two thousand years ago. Only one third of the collection has been displayed to the public until now, because of insufficient display space.

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