National Cultural Heritage Administration: Organize state-owned museums to conduct item-by-item inventory of collections and fully verify the consistency between accounts and items.

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Beijing News According to the National Cultural Heritage Administration, recently, the administration issued a notice and held a teleconference to deploy and promote a special action for the safety management of national public museum collections, comprehensively carrying out inventory checks and safety hazard investigations of state-owned museum collections. This special action is a key project in the field of cultural relics to lay a foundation, solidify roots, and benefit the long-term. Through a year-long concentrated effort, organize national public museums to check each collection, fully verify the accuracy of accounts and items, promote the formation of a normalized and standardized collection inventory mechanism, and simultaneously launch a pilot project for the second national survey of movable cultural relics; focus on investigating and rectifying safety hazards in collections, further strengthen preventive measures, improve safety management and emergency response capabilities, and ensure the safety of museum collections. The National Cultural Heritage Administration requires localities and museums to establish and practice correct performance views, take this special action as an opportunity to improve collection management systems, solidify the safety defense line of collections with tangible results, and promote the overall improvement of collection safety management levels.

The National Cultural Heritage Administration coordinates and continuously deepens the safety management of collections. The national museum work conference held in December 2025 emphasized that collection management should always be placed at the top of museum work, systematically carrying out collection, protection, research, and interpretation. Relevant work arrangements and key tasks will be incorporated into the 14th Five-Year Plan for cultural relics development. Subsequently, the administration conducted in-depth investigations into museum collection management issues involved in related public opinion, issued notices such as “On Strengthening Museum Safety Work” and “On Further Standardizing the Management of Donated Collections in State-Owned Museums,” urging and guiding cultural relics administrative departments and museums at all levels to strengthen basic collection management work, standardize procedures for grading, registering, archiving, and handling collections; strictly follow procedures for accepting donated collections, and earnestly undertake the protection and utilization responsibilities of donated collections.

Editor Liu Jiani