People watch dinosaur fossils at Nanjing Museum in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, May 17, 2022. The International Museum Day, which falls on May 18, is being celebrated with a variety of online and offline activities across China. (Photo by Su Yang/Xinhua)
WUHAN, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The total number of Chinese museums rose by 395 to 6,183 in 2021, 90 percent of them offering free admission, said a senior cultural official Wednesday.
Li Qun, vice minister of culture and tourism and head of the National Cultural Heritage Administration, gave the figures while addressing an event held in central China's Wuhan city to mark the International Museum Day via video link.
Chinese museums received a total of 779 million visitors last year, and the exhibitions and training sessions they presented online garnered 4.1 billion views, figures showed. ■
