China sees museums grow to 4,165

The Suzhou Museum  is a museum of ancient Chinese art, in Suzhou, Jiangsu province.The current building of Suzhou Museum was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei in association with Pei Partnership Architects.[Photo/sina.com.cn]

The number of museums registered in China has reached 4,165, which doubled in the past 10 years, according to new figures revealed on Dec 25. Among them, there are 300 new state-owned museums and 276 new private museums.

In 2014, the central government arranged up to 660 million yuan ($106 million) in funding for the restoration of a number of movable cultural relics and 53 preventive conservation projects of museum collections. Eight thousand pieces and sets of precious cultural relics and more than 20,000 pieces of bamboo and wooden slips have been repaired. Paying close attention to museum management will be one of the main endeavors concerning cultural heritage in 2015.