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Textbook museum offers immersive experience

(chinadaily.com.cn)Updated: 2019-11-01

Photo taken on Oct 31 shows a giant replica of ancient educational texts carved on a stone tablet at the Chinese Textbook Museum in Zibo, Shandong province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

The Chinese Textbook Museum in Zibo, Shandong province, features the most diverse and complete textbook collection in Asia and offers an immersive experience for visitors.

Located at No 255 Zhongrun Road, the museum covers an area of 22,000 square meters and has over 30,000 textbooks on exhibit, some of which can be dated back to the Xia Dynasty (c. 21st century-16th century BC), the first central dynasty in recorded Chinese history.

Early education textbooks from China's Spring and Autumn Periods (770-476 BC) are on display. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

The museum provides visitors with an immersive experience by reproducing typical classroom settings and other educational items stretching from 1775 to today.

Photo taken on Oct 31 shows a traditional classroom. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

The museum opened to the public in 2016 and participated in Shandong province's Third Cultural Consumption Season, offering classrooms for rent as well as discounted tickets and special coupons for books and stationary.

This year, 86 Shandong enterprises signed up for the consumption season which ran from July to October, 43 more than last year. The enterprises offered locals 8.38 million yuan ($1.19 million) worth of coupons. A total of 51.73 million yuan was spent at the event.