"In the past, I had to travel a long way to experience minority people's lives but now I've found it in Beijing," she says. "Separated only by a wall from the hustle and bustle of the North Fourth Ring Road, it is a totally different world here."

Wang says that after the outer construction of the Chinese Ethnic Culture Park and China Nationalities Museum is complete, they will still have a lot of work to do, especially in improving the presentation of ethnic culture and enriching collections.

The China Nationalities Museum has so far collected about 100,000 cultural relics of various ethnic groups. Especially valuable among them are 5,000 cultural relics of the Qiang people, housed in a typical watch tower. In the recent earthquake in Sichuan, the Beichuan Qiang autonomous county was badly hit and many cultural relics were ruined.

"Had we not collected these cultural relics, they would probably have been lost forever," says Wang.

As an anthropological museum, China Nationalities Museum mainly collects items that reflect ordinary people's lives and on July 15, the museum will open a new exhibition titled Ordinary People's Exhibition - Our History and Our Root, displaying items such as needles, bowls and pouches.

The preface of the exhibition states: "Most of the production tools and daily utensils of the common people arelost without any trace in history. However, it is these articles that give us a vivid picture of our life and culture they tell us about our history and help us find our roots."

"What should we present to the world during the Olympic Games? It's our culture and our people, I believe," says Wang.