CCTV News: Museums are an important hall for protecting and inheriting human civilization. This is a bronze restoration experience class held by the Shanghai Museum recently. Restoration experts explain the polishing process of bronze mirrors, and participants can also experience the process of restoring cultural relics in person.

Before the Cultural and Natural Heritage Day in 2025, the Shanghai Museum has leveraged its professional advantages in the field of cultural relics restoration and held a number of intangible cultural heritage experience activities, including bronze restoration and reproduction skills, ancient calligraphy and painting mounting and restoration skills, etc.

In order to better let the audience feel the charm of cultural relics, in 2024, the newly built and opened East Pavilion of the Shanghai Museum broke the traditional cultural relics display model and set up a "naked exhibition" on the premise of ensuring the safety of cultural relics. Some sculptures and cultural relics are not placed in the closed glass display cabinet, so visitors can observe the details of cultural relics at close range without barriers.

In addition, the museum also provides visitors with special opportunities to get started. This is an underglaze blue and white porcelain vase from the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. After professional evaluation and special protection, visitors can touch it, creating a precedent for similar exhibitions in China.

Let traditional culture rejuvenate in the digital age. In this digital art exhibition of "Lands and Rivers Jiangnan", the museum uses multimedia technology to present the landscape and rivers of Jiangnan to the audience in a new and immersive way. In the exhibition, high-definition projection, agile sound effects and the use of interactive technology make the audience feel as if they are in the poetic Jiangnan water town.

The newly opened Ancient Civilization Exploration Palace connects three or four floors through the "Civilization Inheritance Tower", allowing children to transform into "archaeologists", "restors", "researchers", etc., and get close to the daily work of museum staff. Children can dig archaeological fragments in the fields, experience cultural relics restoration with their own hands, participate in planning and building theme exhibitions, and learn knowledge more intuitively.

Conversation in the world, exchange and learn from each other. In July 2024, "The Top of the Pyramid: Ancient Egyptian Civilization Exhibition" was also unveiled at the Shanghai Museum, with a total of 788 precious cultural relics from different periods of ancient Egyptian civilization, of which more than 95% of the cultural relics came to Asia for the first time.

In addition, the Shanghai Museum has developed more than 1,000 cultural and creative products around the exhibition of ancient Egyptian cultural relics, covering multiple categories such as home furnishings, trendy toys, accessories, etc., to meet the needs of citizens and tourists. Up to now, the exhibition has received more than 2 million visitors, driving urban consumption of over 10 billion yuan.

Tang Shifen, Party Secretary of the Shanghai Museum, introduced that through permanent exhibitions and influential special exhibitions, the audience's continuous improvement in the needs of cultural life. In terms of public education, we strive to be layered and segmented, and use this positioning and collection of the Shanghai Museum to strive to benefit the people with culture.