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Nantong Abacus Museum

Updated: 2013-12-05 10:19 (chinadaily.com.cn)
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Nantong Abacus Museum

China Nantong Abacus Museum, located along the northern bank of the Haohe River, is the world’s largest museum of its kind. It consists of three parts: abacus exhibition hall, academic report hall and abacus training base for children, making it a multifunctional museum for exhibition, research, education, communication and tourism. It houses more than 4,000 volumes of historical abacus records, and 2,000 pieces of abacus items, among which are treasures with priceless historical and cultural value. The museum expresses to the combination of local and abacus cultures, making it an excellent cultural landscape along with its unique building design. [Photo by Wang Kaihao/China Daily]

 

Nantong Abacus Museum

Nantong Abacus Museum

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