Provide more assistance for the establishment of museums for social forces
2024-04-18
According to media reports, Xicheng District of Beijing has recently issued a special policy to encourage social forces to establish museums, focusing on four aspects: establishment registration, exhibition and social education activities, support for outstanding talents, and operational support. The reward measures include providing a one-time subsidy of 200000 yuan to museums established and filed by social forces after the promulgation of these measures; For museums that have received funding rewards for municipal exhibitions and social education activities in the previous year, matching funding rewards will be given, with each museum not exceeding a maximum of 400000 yuan. There are currently 32 officially registered museums in the Xicheng District of Beijing, including national and municipal museums such as Prince Gong's Mansion, Lu Xun Museum, Capital Museum, and Beijing Planetarium, as well as district museums such as the Imperial Temple, Xuannan Cultural Museum, and Li Dazhao's Former Residence. There are also museums established by various social forces such as the Ancient Ceramic Civilization Museum and Beijing Opera Museum. The inclusion of these museums established by social forces in China's museum system is conducive to optimizing the structure of the museum system, filling the category gap, enriching the supply of public cultural services, constructing and improving a modern public cultural service system, and also stimulating social vitality, protecting and inheriting excellent traditional Chinese culture. From a global perspective, many world-renowned museums, such as the British Museum and the Metropolitan Museum in the United States, were formerly private museums. Guiding and encouraging social resources to enter the field of museums, utilizing market mechanisms to improve museum operational efficiency, has a positive significance in promoting innovation in museum development concepts, technologies, means, and formats. The participation of social forces can enrich the exhibition content of museums, introduce more innovative elements and concepts, expand the ideas of museum management, and thereby enhance the influence and attractiveness of museums. In fact, the emergence of non-state-owned museums is an inevitable product of sustained and stable economic and social development to a certain stage. It reflects the diversity of social and economic components and organizational forms in the cultural field, and also reflects the cultural consciousness of folk collections from private collections to social sharing. In recent years, museums with the participation of social forces in China have developed rapidly and have become an important component of the museum system. The latest data released by the National Cutural Heritage Administration shows that there are 6565 registered museums in China, of which 2175 are non-state-owned, accounting for more than 30%. State owned museums are large and comprehensive, while non-state-owned museums are small and specialized. In recent years, a number of non-state-owned museums with industry influence have emerged, including the Tang Dynasty West Market Museum, Jianchuan Museum, and Guanfu Museum. They not only showcase personal collections but also serve the public cultural life of the people. In addition, some non-state-owned museums have also formed their own content characteristics in their collections. From traditional Chinese medicine, wood and stone carvings, brocade embroidery, shadow puppetry, printing and dyeing and other folk intangible cultural heritage, to daily necessities with the imprint of the times such as clocks and glasses, locks and scissors, agricultural machinery and tools, old cameras, tea sets, badges and documents, postage and currency, all can become the collection themes of non-state-owned museums, filling many gaps in the category of museums in China. Funding is often the biggest constraint on the development of non-state-owned museums. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, with the continuous deepening of cultural system reform
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