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Quake museum honors victims

BLUEPRINTS of the National Earthquake Ruins Museum, featuring the destruction of Beichuan County in Sichuan Province in the 8.0-magnitude earthquake on May 12, 2008, was revealed by Shanghai Tongji University yesterday. ... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Fri, May 08 2009

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24 Mar 09		Beichuan quake museum planned » People's Daily A national museum featuring the destruction of Beichuan county in Sichuan province in the 8.0-magnitude earthquake on May 12 last year will open in four years. The College of Architecture and Urban Planning of the Shanghai-based Tongji University made...
01 Apr 09		Beichuan quake museum sparks public debate » People's Daily The plan for constructing a national museum featuring the destruction of Beichuan county in Sichuan province in the 8.0-magnitude earthquake on May 12 last year has resulted in a public opinion row. The College of Architecture and Urban Planning of...
19 Aug 08		County reopens to honor quake victims » Shanghai Daily BEICHUAN County, battered in the magnitude 8.0 earthquake on May 12 in Sichuan Province, was opened yesterday for survivors to hold memorial ceremonies for the dead. More than 20,000 people, mostly of the Qiang...
08 Apr 09		China: 2.3 Billion Earthquake Museum » Global Voices Fauna from ChinaSMACK translated netizens' comments on government's plan to spend 2.3 billion yuan on the construction of Beichuan National Earthquake Ruins Museum.
12 May 09		"Loyal" husband's motorbike, runaway teacher's glasses, Pig Strong on display in China's quake museum » People's Daily A museum on last year's May 12 earthquake, the deadliest that hit China in decades, has been opened in the southwestern province of Sichuan while the nation is marking the anniversary of the disaster. The Wenchuan Earthquake Museum, located in...

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