12 museums in Jiangsu rank national list of trending museums

Suzhou Museum and Nanjing Museum have ranked among the top ten of the national list of trending museums in 2023, latest statistics show. Ten other museums in Jiangsu rank among the top 100 list. JSBC has the story.

The 2023 Top 100 National Trending Museums List is automatically generated based on the average of the "China International Museum Hot Search Index" of each museum in the four quarters of the year, including 20 items such as the Permanent Exhibition Index, Visitor Index, and Cultural and Creative Index. 6565 registered museums nationwide are included in the monitoring and statistics. Twelve museums in Jiangsu, including Suzhou Museum, Nanjing Museum, and China Grand Canal Museum, have entered the top 100 of the list.

In recent years, museums in Jiangsu have continuously updated their exhibitions. For example, the Nanjing Museum has launched special exhibitions such as "Nanbo Collection Exhibition" and "Chinese Jade Eternal Epic Scroll Exhibition". In 2023, Suzhou Museum launched a total of 19 new exhibitions.

At the same time, museums have constantly innovated according to audience needs. Yangzhou Museum has conducted year-round "treasure appreciation" activities and provided free cultural relic appraisal consulting services to citizens. The China Grand Canal Museum in Yangzhou have utilized technological means such as 5G+VR and projection technology to immerse visitors in the museum.

Cultural and creative products are also a major feature of various museums in Jiangsu. In recent years, the Nanjing Museum has launched a series of "cultural relics desserts", from Mango Pagoda to Matcha Napoleon, from artifacts that cannot be touched to desserts that can be tasted. Many people will also go to the museum with great interest to search for corresponding cultural relics prototypes.

The Grand Canal gold bars from the China Grand Canal Museum, the "Grand Canal Epic Scroll" series notebooks, and the wisteria seeds planted by Wen Zhengming from the Suzhou Museum have always been popular products on the internet.