China is a country where museums are developing rapidly. As of the end of 2017, China was home to 5,136 museums, and roughly 180 new museums are built and opened to the public each year.
China is a country where museums are developing rapidly. As of the end of 2017, China was home to 5,136 museums, and roughly 180 new museums are built and opened to the public each year. In 2018, more than 20,000 exhibitions were presented at museums nationwide, attracting over one billion visitors. Museums have become not only a place to collect, preserve, study and showcase human history and antiquities, but they are also a cultural symbol, a synthesis of urban culture and an incubator for cultural industries. Compared with developed countries, China’s museums lack professional management staff and concepts and suffer from financial difficulties. Many cities, particularly small ones, attached great importance to the construction of museum buildings but paid less attention to what they were going to exhibit, which led to steep declines in visitor numbers shortly after opening. It is high time for the public to be made aware that museums are places to tell stories which require openness and cooperation.
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