The total number of museums in China reaches 5,535, and one new museum is added every 2 days
Beijing News (Reporter Ni Wei) On May 18, the opening ceremony of the main event venue for the "May 18th International Museum Day" in 2020 was held at the Nanjing Museum. According to the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, this event was the first attempt to use online and offline integration to live broadcast the entire venue event through the 5G network.
Liu Yuzhu, director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, said in his speech that as of the end of 2019, 5,535 museums have been registered nationwide, an increase of 181 from the previous year, including 1,710 non-state-owned museums. Throughout the year, 28,600 exhibitions were held, 334,600 educational activities were held, and the number of visitors was 1,227 million, an increase of more than 100 million over the previous year. The number of free museums reached 4,929, and the number of visitors was 1.022 billion throughout the year.
Since the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", an average of 2 new museums have been added every 2 days in China, and 250,000 people own a museum. Inclusiveness has become a prominent feature of the development of museums in China. Multiple integrations have helped the museum to demonstrate its functions and functions. Reform and innovation have promoted the modernization of museums. , The process of intelligence, exchange and mutual learning guide the museum to the world stage.
During the anti-epidemic period this year, the national museum system launched more than 2,000 online exhibitions, with a total of more than 5 billion visitors, and started the collection of anti-epidemic witnesses, "collecting today for tomorrow", showing the responsibility of the cultural industry.
The theme of this year's International Museum Day also runs through the theme of anti-epidemic. At the opening ceremony, Xinhua News Agency, Jiangsu Provincial Health and Health Commission and Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital donated a batch of representative physical evidence materials reflecting the aid and anti-epidemic to Nanjing Museum. The Hainan Provincial Museum, Gansu Provincial Museum, Liaoning Provincial Museum and Heilongjiang Provincial Museum will hold exhibitions on the theme of "anti-epidemic" and "anti-epidemic". Beijing, Hunan, Xinjiang and other places will carry out charity activities to pay tribute to medical workers and visit special sessions .
In addition, the "Museum on the Move" 5.18 Cultural and Creative Festival launched by the China Museum Association was launched, and the "One Hundred Cities, One Hundred Stations, One Hundred People, and One Hundred Things Endorsed as National Treasures" project launched by many museums was launched, the first A new type of smart communication cooperation project-"National Cloud Exhibition" platform was launched, and a special opening of "Integrating: From Spring and Autumn to Qin and Han-Diversity and Inclusion in Chinese Traditional Culture" organized by Nanjing Museum and 8 cultural and cultural institutions, Started as the first live broadcast project of "National Cloud Exhibition".
In response to the key work of the Chinese museum industry this year, Liu Yuzhu introduced this year that the museum industry should do top-level design in 2020, promote the modernization of the governance system and governance capacity of the museum, further deepen the free opening, and play the role of museums in poverty alleviation, rural revitalization, and cultural tourism. positive effects. At the same time, we must strengthen cross-border integration, innovate communication methods, establish a new museum knowledge production and dissemination system, strengthen safety precautions, improve emergency management capabilities, and do a good job of museum epidemic prevention and control and orderly opening.
The theme of "May 18th International Museum Day" in 2020 is "Museums for Equality: Diversity and Inclusion". Guide the society to pay attention to and pay attention to the social role of museums, support the inclusive development of multiple cultures, promote equality and mutual respect among different civilizations, different countries, different regions, and different individuals, advocate the sharing of museum resources, and protect the basic rights of the public to acquire knowledge and seek development.
This year ’s International Museum Day main venue is hosted by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the People ’s Government of Jiangsu Province, and jointly organized by the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, the Jiangsu Provincial Cultural Heritage Bureau, the China Museum Association, and the Nanjing Museum.
Beijing News reporter Ni Wei