Visitors enjoy the exhibition in an orderly manner.

CHONGQING(CQNEWS) -- On May 18, the International Museum Day, Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum launched free manual explanations and offline handicraft experience activities, including enjoying painted shadow play, designing a DIY project of "3D Monument to the People’s Liberation", and trying to rubbing woodblock New Year pictures, etc. The person in charge of the museum said they hoped to spread the excellent traditional Chinese culture and enhance the cultural self-confidence of the citizens through these methods.

Early in the morning, the citizens orderly showed their appointment code, Yukang code and ID card in order to visit Three Gorges Museum. The theme of this year's International Museum Day is to build "museums dedicated to equality: diversity and inclusion". Therefore, Three Gorges Museum held 9 regular free lectures for 3 permanent exhibitions. The "Magnificent Three Gorges" exhibition presented the unique landscape full of mountains and rivers in the Three Gorges area of the Yangtze River. The "Chongqing·Urbanized Road" showed the historical changes of Chongqing's urban development, while the "ancient Bayu" conveyed the sparks of human civilization in Bayu area.

Tourists take their children to experience manual activities.

In addition to enjoying the permanent exhibitions of the museum, tourists can also participate in DIY activities. They can make a shadow puppet of the historical characters of the Three Kingdoms to perform a shadow puppetry of their owns; they can also build a 3D version of Monument to the People’s Liberation model, to further feel the heavy history of the landmarks in Chongqing; furthermore, they can rubbing the carefully designed wooden prints so as to wish life auspicious and festive. In addition, there are a variety of manual experiences such as DIY lanterns, three-dimensional puzzles of Diaojiaolou, and the production of small night lights of the Han Dynasty. (Translated by Zeng Chenxi, Fathom Language Limited)