China has more than 2,200 museums, running 8,000 exhibitions annually with visitors totaling 160 million. However, two-thirds of them are now on the edge of survival due to shortage of funds. Most of those threatened are small and medium-sized museums in central and western China, according to Zhang Wenbin, director the Chinese Museum Institute.
Why Chinese museums on edge of survival?
Posted by Sophie Beach | May 19, 2005
Categories : Culture & the Arts
Tags :museums