National Bureau of Cultural Relics Launches Safety Management Action for Museums

National Bureau of Cultural Relics has recently issued a notice and convened a video conference to deploy a nationwide safety management action for museums, focusing on the thorough inventory and safety hazard check of museum collections. This is a critical foundational task that aims to enhance long-term benefits in the cultural relics sector. Over the course of a year, it will organize all national museums to recount their collections, verify the consistency between accounts and physical items, and establish a regular and standardized inventory mechanism. At the same time, it will initiate pilot work for the second national movable cultural relics census, with an emphasis on identifying and rectifying safety hazards in collections. The measures aim to reinforce preventive actions, improve safety management and emergency response capabilities, ensuring the safety of museum collections.

To continuously advance the safety management of museum collections, the National Bureau of Cultural Relics highlighted at the 2025 National Museum Work Conference the paramount importance of collection management in museum operations. Systematic collection, preservation, research, and interpretation are key areas of focus. Subsequent directives include rigorous verification and handling of issues related to public concerns about museum collection management, as well as issuing notices such as 'On Strengthening Museum Security' and 'On Further Standardizing the Management of Donated Collections by State-Owned Museums'. These actions are intended to strengthen basic collection management work, standardize procedures like classification, registration, archiving, and entry-exit from storage, and ensure the protection and utilization responsibilities of donated collections.