Beijing had 204 museums, including 18 first-class ones, by the end of 2021, (rank) the top in China and being one of the cities with the richest museum (resource) in the world.
Recently, Beijing Radio & Television Station launched a cultural programme named "The City of Museums'', deeply explores the unique value of Chinese civilization, (interpret) the national spirit and showcases the capital's profound cultural connotation and the charm of the times.
Until now six episodes of the programme (broadcast) while the number of discussions of the topic online has exceeded 1 billion, providing a cultural feast for the audience. The show explores the beauty of culture from a (total) new perspective. The hosts visited eight museums with different characteristics in Beijing, presented a yet-to-be explored area in each museum for the first time.
Many "treasures" of those museums appeared for the first time, such the painting by the Emperor Qianlong (1711—1799) in Wanshou Temple, the original paintings in Xu Beihong Memorial Hall, and (return) cultural relics in the Museum of the Prince Gong's Mansion.
Through the exploration and exhibition, the audience would enter the "hidden world" of those museums by following the hosts' steps, learning the broadness and (deep) of Chinese civilization deeply.
