Hi-tech in Hainan museums draws attention

The recently opened Hainan Museum and Hainan Ethnology Museum are attracting numerous visitors with applications of modern technologies such as spectra vision and virtual reality. 

The second phase of the Hainan Museum opened to the public on May 18 last year and the renovation of the first phase finished on Feb 8. The highlight of the arrangement is to use digitalization methods to show off local cultural heritages. Visitors can learn more about Hainan's history by watching 3D films and reading introductions of cultural relics after scanning QR codes. 

According to Chen Jiang, curator of the Hainan Museum, the network medium has changed cultural diffusion a lot. Digitalized protection and R&D has become an effective approach to inheriting and innovating the museum's cultural resources.   

In the newly established interactive exhibition hall of the Hainan Ethnology Museum, which reopened on Feb 11, many visitors were attracted by a virtual dressing system. People can try different types of Li ethnic costumes and adjust them according to figures.

Both museums are promoting cultural and creative products that visitors can take back home. Chen expected Hainan to boost integrative development between museums and related fields through the mode of "digitalization plus cultural heritage". He also encouraged people of all walks of life to participate in product R&D to cultivate new patterns in resource utilization of cultural relics.