CHINA PICTORIAL 2024-6 Excerpt No.4
Guardians of Culture
Text by Zhang Jingwen and Tian Xiao
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Museums are important institutions for protecting and inheriting human civilizations. Museum workers shoulder a glorious mission and heavy responsibility. They are the heroes behind the scenes at the Shaanxi History Museum to present the elegant cultural relics and wonderful exhibitions.
They are curators who conduct various cultural relics in a magnificent symphony of civilizations.
They are relic restorers, rejuvenating the mottled findings.
They are docents, speaking for muted cultural relics.
They are the custodians of relics, operating an orderly “warehouse” of exhibitions.
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They are cultural researchers tasked with uncovering secrets hidden in the dust of history.