Chinese treasures on show around world wow visitors

New techniques to display relics

Museums have explored new techniques and innovative ways to add more fun to visitors' experience of appreciating Chinese cultural relics.

On Jan 30, ahead of the Chinese Spring Festival, a creative Chinese cultural exhibition kicked off at the Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts in Paris, offering people an interactive and immersive experience with Chinese New Year customs and rituals.

Via a China-developed Wechat app on a smartphone, visitors could design scarves using exquisite patterns of ancient paintings from the Mogao Grottoes, a renowned UNESCO World Heritage Site in northwest China's Gansu Province, and wear their self-designed scarves to celebrate the traditional Chinese festival.

Receiving red packets of "lucky money" from senior members of a family, a tradition for Chinese New Year, was presented in a digitalized form at the exhibition through mobile payment technology.

Digital technologies have also created new ways to exhibit treasures from China. In early 2019, China's tech giant Tencent and France's union of national museums (RMN) signed a strategic cooperation memorandum to enhance cultural exchanges, traditional cultural inheritance and innovation.

Under the cooperative framework, the two sides unveiled a number of exhibitions to present the Chinese treasures collected by French museums in digital forms online.

Patrick Dambron, chairman of France-China Art and Culture Academy (AFCAC), said Internet technologies have enabled cultural heritage to regain its vitality, and encouraged younger generations to inject vigor into modern and traditional arts and culture.