1. Museums are places for collecting, collecting, displaying and studying objects representing natural and human cultural heritage.
2. Museums are institutions, buildings, places or public institutions that classify objects with scientific, historical or artistic value and provide knowledge, education and appreciation for the public.
Museums are non-profit permanent institutions, open to the public, providing services for social development and aiming at learning, education and entertainment.
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The nature of the museum determines that the museum has the characteristics of public welfare. Many museum managers regard public welfare as the burden and constraint for museums to enter the market.
In fact, the museum's public welfare can make the museum have a good public image, get better tax incentives, and make it easier for the museum to carry out public relations propaganda and more directly contact and cooperate with education, environmental protection, tourism and other departments.
According to the analysis report of China Museum Industry Market Prospect and Investment Strategic Planning, the number of registered museums in China has increased from more than 2,200 to 3,589, and it keeps growing at a rate of about 100 every year. China has 1 museum per 400,000 people on average; By 2020, it will grow to 250,000 people and have 1 museum.
There are more than 400 private museums registered in China, and the number is close to 1000. In recent years, the grading and operation of museums have been carried out one after another, and 83 first-class museums have been selected as the first phalanx representing the level of museums in China.
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