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Original Language Title: 博物馆管理办法

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(On December 22, 2005 Ministry of culture makes 35th, announced since on January 1, 2006 up purposes) first chapter General first article for implement implementation science development views, specification museum management work, promote Museum career development, according to People's Republic of China heritage protection method, and People's Republic of China heritage protection method implementation Ordinance, and public culture sports facilities Ordinance, and institutions registration management interim regulations and private non-enterprises registration management interim regulations, related legal regulations,
    These measures are formulated.
    Museums in these measures in article, refers to the collection, preservation, study, human activity and natural environment of the witness, after approval of the Administrative Department for cultural relics and related administration licenses qualified as a legal person, is open to the public, non-profit social service agencies.
    Use or using state-owned cultural relics and specimens, information assets, such as the establishment of the Museum as a State-owned Museum.
    Use or uses non-State-owned cultural relics and specimens, information assets, such as the establishment of museums for non-State-owned museums.
    Third State support and development of museums, institutions, encourages individuals, legal persons and other organizations set up the Museum.
    Museum of the people's Governments above the county level shall be incorporated into the national economic and social development plan, the funds are included in the financial budgets. The number, type, size and layout of the Museum, this area shall be based on the national economic and social development level, cultural resources and public cultural needs, integrated, optimized configuration.
    Encourage established on a priority basis to fill the Museum category blank and reflect industry characteristics, characteristics of regional thematic Museum.
    The fourth State encourages cultural industries related to Museum development, raising funds through various channels, to promote their development.
    Museum to enjoy tax breaks, through law to solicit, purchase, Exchange, donations and transfers the right to collection.
    Article fifth should play the social educational function of the Museum spread is good for social ethics, science and cultural knowledge.
    Other activities at the Museum or, should care for the Museum facilities, exhibits, and surrounding environment, observe public order.
    Sixth Administrative Department for cultural relics under the State Council in charge of the nation's Museum work.
    Local cultural relics administration departments at or above the county level for the Museum in the administrative area supervision and management.
    Seventh cultural relics administration departments at or above the county level shall promote museum construction industry organizations, guide industry organization's activities progressively classified and management of museums.
    Eighth above the county level administrative Department for cultural relics to the Museum have made outstanding contributions to the development of organizations, groups or individuals, shall commend or award.
    Second chapter Museum established, and annual and terminated Nineth article application established Museum, should has following conditions: (a) has fixed of Museum site, set dedicated of Hall (room), and warehouse and heritage protection technology places, Hall (room) area and exhibition scale phase adapted, exhibition environment suitable on public open; (ii) has necessary of do Museum funds and guarantees Museum run of funding; (three) has and do Museum purposes phase meet, and must number and into system of collection and the necessary of research information;
    (D) compliance with the objectives of professional technical and management personnel and (e) comply with State safety and fire-fighting equipment; (vi) ability to independently assume civil liability.
    Tenth provincial administrations responsible for the administration of cultural relics in the Museum established by audit.
    Museum names are usually not called "China" or "Chinese", "States", the words "(hereinafter referred to as" China ", the words"), special case is really necessary as "China", the words ", by the central organ establishment Committee Office in conjunction with the Administrative Department for cultural relics under the State Council approval.
    Name of the non-State-owned museums may not be as "China" and so forth.
    11th article application established Museum, should by Museum site location city (County) level heritage administrative sector trial Hou, to provincial heritage administrative sector submitted following material: (a) Museum established applications; (ii) premises ownership or right proved; (three) sources proved or inspection funding report; (four) collection directory and the legal source description; (five) displayed exhibition outline; (six) intends any statutory representative people of basic situation and the identity proved; (seven) professional technology and management personnel of proved material. Applying for the establishment of non-State-owned museums, draft statute should be submitted simultaneously to the Museum.
    Draft articles should include the following key issues: (a) the objects and collections collections of library standards; (b) the museums Council, boards or other decision-making bodies in the form of the method, composition, terms, rules and so on; (c) the investor failed to obtain economic returns the contract; (d) upon termination of the Museum's collection method; (v) Statute revision procedure. 12th provincial cultural relics Administrative Department shall from the date of receipt of the application materials for the Museum to set up 30 working days to issue an audit opinion. Approval shall be submitted to the Administrative Department for cultural relics under the State Council for the record.
    Audit do not agree, it shall state the reasons in writing.
    Audited agreed to set up a Museum, the applicant should have an audit opinions and other materials, apply to the relevant administrative departments to gain legitimate Museum legal personality.
    Museums should be qualified as a legal person within 6 months from the date of opening to the society.
    Before the implementation of these measures has approved the establishment of the museum shall, within 6 months from the date of implementation of these measures, submitted to the provincial cultural relics administration of the first paragraph of this article 11th addition to (a) all material outside; Statute of the non-State-owned museums should be submitted simultaneously to the Museum. 13th the architectural design of the Museum should be consistent with national and industry promulgated by the relevant standards and norms.
    Collection of Museum architecture should be divided into exhibition areas, warehouse areas, heritage protection, public service area and Office area, relative to the system.
    14th state-owned museum construction project design, shall be submitted to the provincial cultural relics Administration organized demonstration. 15th Museum shall before March 31 in each year to the local municipality (County) level cultural relics administrative departments submitted reports on the work of the previous year, subject to annual inspections.
    Reports should include the implementation of relevant laws and other regulations, collection, exhibition, human and institutional changes as well as social education, security, financial management, and so on. City (County) level cultural relics Administrative Department before April 30 in each year, the previous year's Museum annual review within the administrative area of initial comments submitted to the provincial cultural relics Administrative Department.
    Provincial cultural relics administration before May 31 in each year, the previous year's annual inspection audit of the Museum in the administrative area, and reported to the Administrative Department for cultural relics under the State Council for the record.
    16th Museum Hall of names, addresses, collections, exhibitions, and regulation of the non-State-owned museums and other important matters before the change occurs, shall be reported to the provincial cultural relics administration departments.
    Change of the legal representative of the museum shall be from the date of change submitted to the provincial cultural relics administration departments in the 10th.
    Museum of 17th before termination, shall apply to the termination by the Administrative Department for cultural relics at the provincial level and collection solutions, the competent administrative Department for cultural relics Guide, complete the liquidation work of the Museum. Provincial Museum of cultural relics Administrative Department shall receive termination application and collection solutions within 30 working days from the date issued an audit opinion. Collections solutions in compliance with the statutory requirements, grant terminated; collection solution does not meet the statutory requirements, shall be ordered to correct granted after termination.
    Relevant administrative departments according to the provincial cultural relics administration audit comments, given the legal personality of the Museum to cancel the registration formalities.
    18th end of the State-owned Museum, the collection specified by the provincial cultural relics administration of State-owned museums receive.
    Termination of the non-State-owned Museum, its collections belong to the law of circulation by law, allows the circulation of it in the manner prescribed by law; could not legally circulating collections should be transferred to other museums accept donated items, shall be handed over to other museums, and inform the donor.
    Chapter III collection 19th Museum collections, conservation, research, exhibition, and so on, shall establish and perfect rules and regulations, and report the city (County) level cultural relics administration departments. Museums should have collection protection equipment and facilities.
    Collection-level cultural relics and other vulnerable fragile precious cultural relics, or counter should be set up and the person responsible for the custody.
    20th Museum should establish collections General Ledger, ledger and every items file, and go through the registration formalities according to law.
    Museum by law to solicit, purchase, Exchange, donation and allocation made collections should be registered into the collection of the General Ledger in the 30th. Article 21st transfers and exchanges, using state-owned Museum collections, collection Museum offers collections of museums can be made physical, technical, training or financial compensation. Determination of the amount of compensation, should be given to collection storage, repair, research, collectable display process, such as actual costs incurred.
    Allocating State-owned Museum collection, Exchange, loan application documents should include a reasonable compensation plan.
    22nd Museum the Museum enough standard, or damage due to corrosion or other reasons cannot be repaired and continue saving value-free collection, or authorised by the venue after the Committee of experts that concluded that, may apply to the provincial cultural relics Administration to quit collection.
    Withdraw from the collections contents of application materials should include no longer collections of collections name, number and exit the collection of reasons and copies of archive collections relating. 23rd State-owned provincial cultural relics administrative departments shall on receipt of the exit of the museum collections within 30 working days of the application materials, the Organization of expert review board.
    Expert review board failed, exit collection procedures for terminating the collection. Adopted by the Committee of experts to review, provincial administrative departments for cultural relics should be on materials in the cultural relics administrative departments and the announcement on the official website of the provincial cultural relics administration of 30 working days. Period is subject to other State-owned collections of cultural relics units would like to receive the collection, transfers and exchanges and other means; like no other during State-owned collections of cultural relics units would like to receive the collection, are disposed of by the provincial administrative departments for cultural relics.
    Solution implementation reported to the Administrative Department for cultural relics under the State Council for approval, Museum of disposition proceeds should be used for career development. State-owned museums exit special collections items archive should be established, and reported to the provincial cultural relics administration departments.
    Special archives shall be kept for more than 75 years. 24th non-State-owned museums to apply collections exits collection, shall be attached to the application materials, the Board of directors or other decision-making bodies in the form of a written submission.
    Museum provincial cultural relics Administrative Department shall, within the 30 working days of receipt of the application materials make a decision on whether to allow exiting collection, and report to the Administrative Department for cultural relics under the State Council for the record. 25th Museum should be based on the library's collections, conduct research on professional disciplines and applications, improving the operational activities of the academic content and promote professional growth.
    On the premise of ensuring the security of collections, museums outside the Museum research collections in the library should be facilitated.
    Fourth chapter show and service 26th article Museum held displayed exhibition, should followed following principles: (a) and this museum nature and task phase adapted, highlight collection products features, and industry characteristics and regional features, has high of academic and culture content; (ii) reasonable using modern technology, and material, and process and performance technique, reached form and content of harmony unified; (three) exhibits should to original mainly, recovery displayed should keep history original, using copies, and imitations and auxiliary exhibits should to express;
    (D) the exhibition hall with a standards-compliant security protection equipment and prevent natural damage to exhibits on display facilities; (v) text and guide services for the public; (f) exhibition outreach activities timely, accurate, new style.
    27th the Museum should be based on the purpose of library, our library features various forms and a lively social and service activities, active participation in community cultural construction.
    Encourages museums to use film, television, audio and video products, publications and the Internet spread knowledge collection, exhibition and research results.
    28th article Museum on public open, should comply with following provides: (a) announcement service project and open time; change service project and open time of, should ahead of 7th announcement; (ii) open time should and public of work, and learning and the leisure time phase coordination; statutory holiday and school vacations during, should appropriate extended open time; (three) no due reason, State-owned Museum annual open time not less than 10 months, non-State-owned Museum annual open time not less than 8 months.
    29th Museum should gradually establish free reduction system, and announced to the public.
    State-owned Museum group visits to minors free of charge system, the elderly, people with disabilities, visit the active duty special social groups, such as introduction of fee remission system.
    30th to encourage museums to develop relevant cultural products, dissemination of scientific and cultural knowledge, professional training, technology transfer and other forms of paid services activities.
    Fifth chapter supplementary articles article 31st Museum in contravention of this regulation, if the circumstances are serious, by the provincial cultural relics Administration revoke approval of comments, by the Museum of the relevant administrative departments to withdraw legal personality.
    Museums in violation of other laws and regulations, in accordance with the provisions of the relevant laws and regulations.
              32nd article this way come into force on January 1, 2006.