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Museums in Yinzhou popular among citizens
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Tuesday, 19 January 2016 08:54
It is learned from the 2015 yearly meeting of the museums in Yinzhou District held on January 12 that as the only one "China Museum Culture Town" of Zhejiang Province, Yinzhou District has made great efforts to improve the services of the museums and in 2015 the total number of the visitors to the museums exceeded 600,000. At the meeting, nine advanced units or individuals received awards for good performance, including the iron museum, the Wang Shengda Museum, and Yue Haikang.
Since 2008, when the first private museum was set up in Yinzhou District, a variety of museums have been established, covering such fields as clothes, stone carving, woodcut, agricultural areas, traditional residences, straw plaited articles, china and pottery, calligraphy and paintings, tin-ware, geological materials, wedding culture, classical furniture and traditional kitchen culture. On average, there is one museum for every 30,000 people in the district. In 2015, the museums carried out about 200 festival exhibitions, intangible cultural heritage displays, performances and family activities, receiving over 600,000 visitors and displaying a good social influence.
