As core institutions for collecting, researching, and showcasing cultural heritage, museums serve as crucial indicators for measuring national cultural development. In China, museums function as primary custodians of cultural relics and specimens, platforms for public education, and research entities, constituting an essential component of socialist scientific and cultural endeavors.
This dataset systematically compiles annual operational data from museums at various administrative levels across mainland China (2018-2023), covering 43 core indicators including institutional attributes, collection management, visitor statistics, public services, spatial facilities, and administrative records. Through micro-level institutional data, researchers can precisely analyze industry trends, efficiency of regional cultural resource allocation, and public cultural service effectiveness, providing quantitative support for academic research, policy formulation, and industry investment.
Data Uniqueness
- National Micro-level Archives: Distinct from macro-level statistical bulletins, this database offers complete operational profiles at individual museum granularity (e.g., "number of precious cultural relics in collections", "experimental restoration area", "social education activity sessions" as non-aggregated data).
- Comprehensive Spatial Coordinates: Contains address information precise to district/county levels with longitude and latitude coordinates (fields: Province(省份)/City(城市)/District(区县)/Longitude(经度)/Latitude(纬度)), enabling GIS spatial analysis and cultural resource accessibility studies.
- Multi-dimensional Operational Correlations: Supports cross-analysis of relationships such as "museum rating-visitor volume-free admission policies" (e.g., verifying whether higher-rated museums significantly enhance public engagement).
Data Application Value
- Academic Research: Facilitates cultural policy evaluation (impact of "free admission" policies on regional visitation), cultural heritage economics (resource allocation efficiency between "total building area" and "educational space area"), and urban cultural geography (museum spatial clustering analysis based on coordinates).
- Industry Practice: Supports museum rating benchmarks (correlation between "total collection size" and "precious relic quantity"), cultural tourism site selection (visitor capacity modeling combining "visitor volume" with "public service area").
- Policy Assessment: Enables regional cultural facility equilibrium diagnostics (comparing "museums per million population" across province-city hierarchies) and fiscal subsidy effectiveness audits (output analysis of "social education activities" in free-admission institutions).
The CnOpenData National Museum Annual Report dataset, characterized by micro-institutional perspectives, continuous temporal dimensions, and geospatial coordinates, fills critical gaps in cultural resource refinement studies. Combining academic rigor with practical applicability, it serves as an irreplaceable infrastructure-level resource for cultural policy research, cultural tourism planning, and heritage management.
Data Scale
Time Coverage
2018-2023
Field Display
Sample Data
Data Update Frequency
Annual updates