Ping-pong museum moving to Shanghai

All 6,000 items at the Museum of the International Table Tennis Federation have been moved from Lausanne, Switzerland, to Shanghai.

The sport's new museum will be inside the World Expo Garden on the west bank of the Huangpu River. It is expected to open in July 2017, Chen Peijie, president of Shanghai Sports Academy, said on Saturday at the opening ceremony of the collection's exhibition in Suzhou.

Items on show include the earliest ping-pong bats that feature paintings of ladies in gowns, which were made of sheep skin in the 19th century, and the earliest balls, which were made of cotton.