Chongqing- During the Spring Festival of 2020, to ensure the prevention and control of COVID-19 and to guarantee the security and health of the public, there are 104 museums in Chongqing that have temporarily suspended. However, although those museums are closed, Chongqing Municipal Commission of Culture and Tourism Development organizes museums to take full advantage of themselves, launching digital exhibitions elaborately. Museums use the Internet and mobile digital platforms to carry out various cultural interactive activities. In this way, they are providing the feast of culture to tourists both at home and abroad.

Recently, a number of museums in Chongqing had launched 254 different types of digital exhibitions, the image is the virtual exhibition of Three Gorges Museum

The online exhibitions have sufficient content for people to learn different things every day. Meanwhile, those exhibitions of major museums in Chongqing spice people's life during home prevention and control, becoming the moral encouragement during the epidemic. According to data, there were 254 digital exhibitions launched by museums’ websites in total from January 24 to February 18, 2020, of which 86 were newly launched during and after the Spring Festival, with more than one million online hits in total. Meanwhile, there are 82,243 pieces or sets of cultural relics, with 160,000 online hits.

Besides, there is a series of virtual exhibitions, as National Cultural Heritage Administration’s first to the fourth batch of online exhibition resources, will be introduced to the world. For example, Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum will introduce Life of Strong China – the Change Exhibition of Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China. Meanwhile, Chongqing Hongyan Revolution History Museum has its basic exhibitions while Chongqing Natural History Museum presents the basic exhibition, Earth · Creature · Human, and special exhibition, the Panda Era – Evolution of Pandas.

The virtual exhibition of Three Gorges Museum

Audiences can immerse themselves in the world of 43 virtual exhibitions through computers or mobile phones. You can take part in interactive activities, learn about culture, or enjoy high-definition images. At the same time, an audio-visual program was introduced, which a professional interpreter will provide a more intuitive, authentic, and cordial audio-visual exhibition for people by video playback.

The full view exhibition navigation system of Chongqing Hongyan Revolution History Museum

Moreover, each museum exhibited its treasures online. Besides, Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum also launched a high-definition 3D display of 47 wonderful cultural relics. Audiences can freely enjoy the culture relics online thrRecently, a number of museums in Chongqing had launched 254 different types of digital exhibitions, enriching people's lives during the epidemic. Also, there are 16 animations, created based on cultural relics in the museum, to tell the stories behind those cultural relics. Chongqing Hongyan Revolution History Museum embeds the function of overlooking by the aerial helicopter in the virtual exhibition, showing Hongyan Village through aerial photography, with fresh experience for audiences. Additionally, Chongqing Natural History Museum holds a science popular COVID-19 knowledge online prize contest, which is organized by the Chinese Association of Natural Science Museums.

The virtual exhibition of Chongqing Natural History Museum

In recent years, Chongqing’s museums have successively implemented the plan of Internet + Chinese Civilization to promote the construction of digital resources and online display and publicity. Large museums in Chongqing, such as Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing Hongyan Revolution History Museum, Chongqing Natural History Museum and more, all open their official online presentation platforms, including websites, Weibo, WeChat account, and more. They make full use of the first national movable cultural relics survey to learn about audiences’ interests and then integrate the superior resources of their regions. Afterward, they promote online temporary exhibitions, virtual exhibitions, audio-visual tours, animation, and three-dimensional collection displays. When COVID-19 was spread, digital exhibition reserves of Chongqing’s museums had already exceeded 150 items. For instance, Chongqing Three Gorges Museum launched 21 virtual exhibitions, 75 pictures exhibitions, 10 audio-visual tours, and also launched 47 three-dimensional collections of precious cultural relics as well as introductions and images of 79,751 pieces or sets of cultural relics.

Since the prevention and control of the epidemic at home, the museums cooperated with the major media to arrange incredible exhibition contents. They launched 254 different types of exhibitions in total, including 86 newly digital exhibitions, some micro-lectures, cultural relics appreciation, and more.