[ ARTS & CULTURE ] In a Singapore storeroom, treasure awaits

The hoard salvaged from a Tang Dynasty shipwreck is being stored in a museum basement and may one day become the core of a maritime Silk Road museum

By Kai Portmann / DPA , SINGAPORE

“We have it in a very high-security government store,” said Pamelia Lee, head of Singapore’s Maritime Silk Road Project.

Singapore bought the treasure with the objective “to be able to tell the story of Singapore’s early origins and to be able to tell the story with our neighbors,” Lee said, adding that the emphasis was now on doing research, studying the artifacts and building up a collection, rather than on constructing an iconic museum.

“We are at the beginning of a big, long and mountainous road,” Lee said.

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