近年来,我国的博物馆事业蓬勃发展,截至2012年底,全国备案的博物馆3866家,其中国有博物馆3219家(文物行政部门管理的国有博物馆2560家,其他行业性国有博物馆659家),民间博物馆647家,人均40多万拥有一个博物馆。参观博物馆已经成为广大民众主要的文化活动之一。但是,对博物馆了解的人比较少,大多数人甚至不知道我国的第一座博物馆是何时建立的, In recent years, the museums in our country have flourished. As of the end of 2012, there were 3,866 museums nationwide, including 3,219 state-owned museums (2,560 state-owned museums run by cultural relics administration and 659 state-owned museums of other industries) and 647 private museums More than 400,000 people own a museum. Visiting the museum has become one of the major cultural activities of the general public. However, there are relatively few people who know the museums and most do not even know when the first museum in our country was established.