Approximately 80,000 Visits to Museums in Yinzhou During New Year Holiday

"Elegance and Splendor" Symphony Concert, "Food" Fashion New Protein • Insect Gourmet Culture Day, Winter Garden Party… During the New Year's Day holiday, approximately 80,000 visits were made to major museums in Yinzhou, where people attended a joyful carnival and gained unique experiences.

It is reported that during the New Year period, over 25,000 visitors entered the Ningbo (Yinzhou) Museum. Some came to appreciate the poetic romance of Monet's original Water Lilies, some to experience the aesthetics of Qing Dynasty court life, and others, drawn by the abundant activities, brought their families to "stroll and eat."

This year, the Ningbo Museum presented two major exhibitions: "Splendid Years of the Forbidden City—Qing Court Cultural Relics New Year Exhibition in Ningbo" and "Monet's Poetry: An East-West Aesthetic Dialogue from Chicago to the Three Rivers Estuary." On January 2, the "Forbidden City Lotus Charm" Cultural and Creative Intangible Heritage Market, inspired by the "Splendid Years of the Forbidden City" exhibition, created retro-style scenes. Traditional pastries from Beijing's time-honored brands, Ningbo's Gangyagou tangyuan, intangible cultural heritage glutinous rice cakes, and other Chinese delicacies collided deliciously with Ningbo coffee and creative Western pastries. The cultural and creative products at the museum's special exhibition pop-up store, refrigerator magnets from "Jiuzhou Fengwu," and pop-up books featuring ancient architecture further dazzled visitors. Many visitors came to the museum specifically for the cultural and creative items. It is reported that the museum's cultural and creative store achieved cumulative sales of nearly 200,000 yuan during the New Year holiday.

On the evening of January 3, the Ningbo Museum also hosted the "Elegance and Splendor" Symphony Concert, where exhibitions and music deeply merged, offering visitors a dual aesthetic enjoyment of hearing and sight.

During the New Year's Day holiday, the Yinzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum held an intangible cultural heritage hands-on experience event themed around the Year of the Horse. The venue featured multiple experience zones. In the knot button making area, red silk threads wound around fingertips, transforming into exquisite little horse-shaped knot buttons. In the sachet making zone, parents and children worked together to sew auspicious horse-shaped sachets. At the bone-wood inlay experience station, under the guidance of inheritors, participants carefully inlaid thin bone slices and wood pieces, personally polishing small pendants.

It is understood that about 5,000 visitors came to Zhou Yao Insect Museum during the New Year holiday to experience a different insect world. The museum specially invited the team of Professor Wang Jirui from Zhejiang A&F University to create the "Food" Fashion New Protein • Insect Gourmet Culture Day. Classic edible insects such as Doumi worms, bee pupae, rice grasshoppers, and bamboo worms were carefully cooked until fragrant, crispy, and crunchy, described as "crispy with a chicken-like flavor." Simultaneously, the Resource Insect Culture Science and Ecology Exhibition showcased 18 species across 6 categories of live resource insects, guiding visitors to appreciate these tiny yet great lives.

Inside the exhibition halls of the Huamao Museum of Art Education (MoAE), a distinctive sight emerged: visitors held their phones, scrutinizing details of famous paintings like detectives. This event, called "Truly Artistic Fun" Winter Garden Party, with its unique "gamified" art exploration model, used an "apple" as its core engine, successfully transforming the static art exhibition hall into a three-dimensional experience field full of exploratory fun, attracting a large audience. The Yinzhou District Pickled Vegetable Museum, centered on "intangible cultural heritage handcraft plus folk customs and blessings," launched four New Year atmosphere activities, allowing visitors to learn about Ningbo's traditional New Year customs through immersive experiences.