The Chinese Museums Association on Friday said that China’s museums received a total 1.1 billion visitors in 2018, with the number of young visitors showing stable growth.
The Director of the association’s social education committee, Huang Chen, said at the annual meeting in Xi’an, North-West China’s Shaanxi Province, that free admission policy of Chinese museums had so far brought a tremendous inflow of people.
Chen said a public education platform of museology had been launched to better serve museum-goers in China.
However, local authorities said the Erlitou Relic Museum, which exhibits the history of ancient China’s first recorded dynasty of Xia (2070-1600 B.C.), was set to open on Saturday in central China’s Henan Province.
Located in the city of Luoyang, the museum covers an area of 32,000 square metres and exhibits the history and culture of the dynasty as well as significant archaeological findings.
Discovered in 1959 in Luoyang, Erlitou was identified by Chinese archaeologists as the relics of the capital city of the middle and late Xia Dynasty.
However, palace buildings, city roads and bronze wares had been found over recent years at the site.
