Nearly 90% of interactive activities are free and open to attract people

  More and more people love to visit museums (13th Five-Year Plan·China Impression (21))

  "This is how ancient coins evolved!"

  "It turns out that the calligrapher and painter Wen Zhengming didn't write well when he was a child."

  During the "Museum Education Night" held recently by Wuzhong Museum in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Chen Wentao, a fourth-grade student of Baodai Experimental Primary School in Wuzhong District, learned a lot of historical knowledge and celebrity stories.

In the two-hour activity, nearly 300 elementary school students participated in the exhibition hall treasure hunt, making commemorative coins, cultural relics puzzle games, museum courses, etc., feeling the connotation of Wu culture in the interactive experience of combining hands and brains.

  The Wuzhong Museum officially opened in June this year, positioning itself as a "high-level, distinctive cultural complex."

Since the opening of the museum, exhibitions such as "The History of the Three Kingdoms" cultural exhibition, "My Scenery in Wumen—Scenery Scenery of Wuzhong in the Ming and Qing Dynasties" have been held, and a number of museum nights, artisan training courses, and academic lectures have been planned and launched to provide citizens with Rich cultural experience.

  Chen Wentao's mother, Ms. Zhang, told reporters that the content of the activity is very rich, and the children are highly involved and interested.

"We will continue to pay attention to new activities on the museum's official account, and bring more children to participate, so that children can approach history and fall in love with the museum."

  Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, China has added one museum every two days on average, making China one of the fastest growing museums in the world.

As of 2019, there are 5535 registered museums nationwide, an increase of 18% over 2015.

An inclusive and equal public cultural service system for museums has been basically completed, and the proportion of museums that are free to open has increased from 85.5% to 89.1%.

Museum resources are further extended to the grassroots level. There are museums in 76% of counties and districts across the country, and facilities are constantly improving.

  Wen Qing, a young man from Hebei, is a enthusiast of cultural and cultural activities. In his impression, many high-level museums have been opened in recent years.

"The Shanxi Bronze Museum and the Henan Erlitou Site Museum I have been to are very good. In Hebei, there are also Dingzhou Museum and Zhengding County Museum." Since the opening of the Shanxi Bronze Museum in July 2019, Wen Qing has gone Visited 4 times.

In addition to the large collection of fine works and a good exhibition environment, high-quality special exhibitions are also the reason why he has repeatedly visited.

In September this year, the "Handong Great Kingdom-Exhibition of Exquisite Cultural Relics Unearthed from the Tombs of Marquis Zeng in Successive Dynasties" opened in Shanxi Bronze Museum.

"Hubei Zeng State and Shanxi Jin State are both the early days of the Western Zhou Dynasty. After thousands of years, the bronze treasures of Zeng State and Jin State are in the same museum, which is very worth seeing." Wen Qing said.

  In the past five years, the proportion of non-state museums nationwide has risen from 23.7% to 30.9%, and the categories of museums have become increasingly diverse, providing audiences with more diverse choices.

Jianchuan Museum is the largest non-state-owned museum in China, with a total of 32 exhibition halls in its museum settlement in Dayi County, Chengdu, Sichuan.

In June 2018, the Chongqing Jianchuan Museum was officially opened. It covers an area of ​​250 acres and has an exhibition area of ​​15,000 square meters. It includes the Museum of the First Factory Site (Hanyang Arsenal) of the Ordnance Industry Department, the Anti-Japanese War Relics Museum, the Chongqing Story Museum, and China 8 theme pavilions including the "囍" Cultural Museum.

In 2019, the Museum of "We Are Walking on the Road-70 Years of Folk Memories of New China" and the Chongqing Civil Air Defense History Museum were added.

  "If it were not for the personal opportunity given by the times, how could I have built so many museums?" Jianchuan Museum curator Fan Jianchuan told reporters.

Chongqing Jianchuan Museum has been listed as a patriotism education base and a popularization base for humanities and social sciences in Chongqing, with an average of more than 1 million visitors per year.

  Among the newly built museums in recent years, university museums are a vital force that cannot be ignored.

Tsinghua University Art Museum and Zhejiang University Art and Archaeology Museum became "net celebrities" as soon as they opened.

Since its opening in September 2016, Tsinghua Art Expo has held 67 exhibitions, including 24 international exchange exhibitions, and every year it launches eye-catching important exhibitions.

Opening in September 2019, "Long-term with the sky-Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang culture and art special exhibition" gathered more than 330 cultural relics from 35 cultural and cultural institutions in Tsinghua Art Museum and Shaanxi Province, including 189 first-class cultural relics (groups) ), can be regarded as one of the most watched exhibitions of the year.

During the 99-day exhibition period, the exhibition "Long with the Sky" attracted nearly 100,000 visitors from home and abroad. In conjunction with the exhibition, high-level academic seminars, series of academic lectures, special guided tours, art salons, and photography competitions were also held.

  "As an open art platform for teachers, students and the general public, Tsinghua Art Museum has carried out a series of public education activities that take into account academic, ideological and artistic qualities, including academic lectures, practical inquiry courses on the beauty of handcrafts, and art museums. "Yinghua" activities and so on." Du Pengfei, executive deputy curator of the Tsinghua University Art Museum, introduced, "We also used high-definition digital technology to create 63 digital exhibition halls, creating a'unending exhibition', and bringing life to the online audience. An immersive experience."

  According to statistics, in 2019, museums across the country held 28,600 exhibitions, 334,600 educational activities, and received 1.227 billion visitors, an increase of 43%, 67%, and 75% respectively over 2015.

Minors accounted for more than 20% of museum audiences. A long-term mechanism for primary and secondary school students to use museum research was gradually established. 203 museums were incorporated into the Ministry of Education’s National Primary and Secondary School Student Research Practice Education Base.

  In today's China, museums have become an important public cultural space and social education platform. More and more people like to visit museums, experience the heaviness of history and the colorfulness of civilization in museums, and get a beautiful cultural experience.

  Zou Yating