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During the May Day holiday, over 60 million people visited museums in China, setting a new record.
Published:
2025-05-07
During this year's May Day holiday, cultural relic museums witnessed a surge in visitors.
China News Service, Beijing, May 6th (Reporter Ying Ni) During this year's May Day holiday, cultural relic museums witnessed a surge in visitors. The National Cultural Heritage Administration announced on the 6th that during the May Day period, over 60.4919 million visitors were received by museums across the country, marking a year-on-year increase of 17% and setting a new record high.
Popular museums such as the Palace Museum, the National Museum of China, and the Shaanxi History Museum are extremely hard to get tickets for. On the centenary of the establishment of the Palace Museum, four special exhibitions, namely "Ling Linquan", "Wan Wu He Sheng", "Yu Chu Kungang", and "Daedalus", are all on display simultaneously: Monet's "Water Lilies" and Song Huizong's "The Picture of the Dragon and the Stone" scroll have a "dialogue" in the garden, and the "Write-Off Rare Birds" painting by the Five Dynasties painter Huang Quan brings out a host of "magical creatures" in the Forbidden City. In the special exhibition on Qing Dynasty court and jade culture, half of the exhibits are on display for the first time.
Meanwhile, several museums have also adopted the "super long standby" mode. The Hubei Provincial Museum, Tianjin Museum, Shanghai Museum, and the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum have all opened night exhibitions to welcome visitors from all directions.
The public immerse themselves in experiencing the cultural charm in museums and historical sites. According to statistics, museums in provinces such as Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Guangdong and Sichuan received over 3 million visitors. Among them, the new exhibition "The Display of the History of Anhui Civilization - Anhui in the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties" of Anhui Provincial Museum achieved the century reunion of the "Father and Son Tripods" of two generations of Chu kings, and on May 2nd, it set a new record of the highest single-day visitor number since the museum opened 69 years ago, reaching 25,500 people.
Many national archaeological heritage parks have integrated intangible cultural heritage and folk customs, actively organizing over 370 themed activities such as exhibition and display, artistic performances, and cultural and creative markets. There are long queues of visitors at heritage museums. The scenes are so lively that one can hardly keep up with them. According to statistics from various regions, from May 1st to May 5th, 3313,200 visitors visited 55 national archaeological heritage parks in China, representing a year-on-year growth of 2.3%. Among them, 11 parks had a total of over 100,000 visitors.