Earthquake museum to be built in China

Last Updated: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:28:00 +1100

China's begun work on a museum in the southwest province of Sichuan to commemorate the 2008 earthquake that killed nearly 90,000 people.

The museum will be built in Beichuan - one of the areas worst hit by the magnitude 8 quake and home to nearly a quarter of its victims.

Xinhua reports the museum's expected to open on the earthquake's third anniversary in May 2011.

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