Complex sentence: Beginning in 1975, the museum began seeking out modern ceramics, and the exhibition space was expanded with eight new rooms on the main floor to show ceramics from the East and West from its origins in the sixteenth century.
Split into simpler sentences: Beginning in 1975, the museum began seeking out modern ceramics, and the exhibition space was expanded with eight new rooms. The main floor exhibits ceramics from the East and West, from its origins to the sixteenth century.