During this year’s Dragon Boat Festival holiday, the Liaoning Provincial Museum welcomed a total of 52,368 visitors, representing a 12.17% increase compared to the same period in 2025. Among them, out-of-province visitors accounted for 66%, while in-province visitors accounted for 34%. The top five sources of out-of-province visitors were: Heilongjiang, Jilin, Hebei, Shandong, and Beijing. The top five sources of in-province visitors were: Shenyang, Dalian, Anshan, Jinzhou, and Tieling.

The Liaoning Provincial Museum meticulously planned and launched a diverse array of cultural activities, reinterpreting traditional festival customs in fresh ways and offering the public more options for summer leisure. During this year’s Dragon Boat Festival holiday, the museum continued to provide convenient services such as extended opening hours and reservation-free admission, effectively dispersing daytime visitor peaks and actively creating a “golden window” for evening visits, thereby expanding the reach of public cultural services. While streamlining the entry process, the museum also implemented refined management measures, such as conducting scientific assessments and temporarily holding back admissions, and setting up priority access channels for seniors aged 70 and above, persons with disabilities, and active military personnel, enabling efficient operations even during peak holiday hours and further enhancing visitor satisfaction.

The museum also strove to build a multidimensional exhibition matrix, offering visitors richly layered, high-quality exhibitions. “Resonance of Metal, Virtue of Jade: An Exhibition on Chinese Inkstone Culture” used inkstones as a medium to reveal the spiritual world of ancient literati; “Where the Guardian Mountain Meets the Sea: Exhibition of Archaeological Discoveries From the Liao Imperial Mausoleums at Yiwulyu Mountain” unveiled the mysteries of Liao Dynasty imperial mausoleums through the latest archaeological findings; and “Co-Creating the New Era: 2026 Exhibition of Excellent Artworks From China National Arts Fund-Supported Projects”, “Emblems of Virtue: Exhibition of Plaques Artifacts”, and “Ancient Games—A Thousand Years of Wisdom in Traditional Chinese Sports” complemented one another brilliantly, weaving together multiple narratives encompassing contemporary fine art creation, Ming and Qing dynasty plaque culture, and ancient traditional sports.

Beyond the major exhibitions, a wide variety of cultural experience activities also attracted large crowds, maxing out the sense of ritual for “celebrating Dragon Boat Festival in the museum”. In the training classrooms of the museum, “Bamboo Rhyme at Duanyang, Blessings Through Craftsmanship: Dragon Boat Festival Pendant DIY Activity” was filled with delightful interest. The “Herbal Duanyang · Artisanal Handcrafts” activity, launched in the “The Glamour of the Tang and Song Dynasties” digital exhibition hall, allowed visitors to grind medicinal herbs by hand and fill their own sachets. In the “Liaoning Provincial Museum Handcrafts” experience area, visitors could draw inspiration from the patterns on artifacts in the museum’s collection to paint their own Dragon Boat Festival sachets. The Children’s Experience Hall’s Dragon Boat Festival holiday-themed activities, the LiaoBo Star Academy’s “Lotus in Every Step” bilingual one-day camp and “Encountering National Treasures” parent-child check-in activity, as well as the wonderful performance of the children’s situational play “National-Treasure Adventures at Liaoning Provincial Museum”, all created a culturally rich traditional festival in a variety of ways, bringing people an immersive cultural experience.

Leveraging the holiday as an opportunity, the museum launched a number of public welfare initiatives, striving to bring the benefits of culture to the people in concrete ways. The “Featured Guided Tour: Seeking Patterns in the Guardian Mountain · Hidden Treasures in Tiles”, launched in conjunction with the “Where the Guardian Mountain Meets the Sea: Exhibition of Archaeological Discoveries From the Liao Imperial Mausoleums at Yiwulyu Mountain” exhibition, featured a distinctive theme and combined education with entertainment, achieving a deep integration of “exhibition + guided tour + hands-on experience”. Throughout the holiday, the museum’s volunteers remained at their posts, providing guided tour and consultation services at the cloakroom and the information desk, and delivering high-quality volunteer-guided tours to visitors, becoming a bright and beautiful feature of the museum. On the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, the museum also brought the “China in Poetry and Painting: The Poetic Realm of Chinese Painting” photo exhibition to Shuangtaizi District in Panjin City, and organized the “2026 Public Welfare Authentication & Consultation Service for Private Collections — Painting & Calligraphy Session”, striving to extend the reach of cultural services and facilitate the two-way integration of traditional culture with contemporary life.