ON THURSDAY, there were so many visitors to the Shanghai Museum for the opening day of the exhibition "A History of the World in 100 Objects from the British Museum", that they had to queue in line for at least five hours in order to see it. Thepaper.cn comments:

In 2016, when the Suzhou Museum held a special exhibition of Italian Renaissance paintings, visitors also formed long lines.

These long queues show that with their living standards raised, people now want to enrich their lives with culture.