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149 museums in Shanghai, with 2.24 million collections
By:Liu Xutong  |  From:english.eastday.com  |  2021-04-14 17:11

Shanghai'smodern museum system comprisesnational-level andstate-owned museums as the main body, with industry and non-state-owned museums as components, both containing a rich variety oftypes and diverse subjects.

As of the end of last year, the city had149 registered museums, with a total of 2.24million pieces/sets, and more than half of them are available online. “Red”themedmuseums have developed rapidly, with there being657 revolutionary historical sites in the city, 31 revolutionary museum memorials, and 65 red tourist attractions.

As more architecture in the city become “readable” to citizens, Shanghai is creating a museum group “without walls”, which are increasingly accessible to people. So far, the total number of historic buildings open to the public has increased from nearly a hundred to 1,037.The total number of museum visits surpassed the city's total permanent population for the first time in the previous year, and museum culture is increasingly integrated into citizens' lives.

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