Year-ender: Top 10 cultural events from 2020

8. Museums go on the cloud

This year, due to the coronavirus outbreak, many museums launched online tours that attracted many viewers.

On March 1, the Potala Palace, a landmark building in China's Xizang autonomous region, held a livestreaming tour for the first time in its over 1,300-year history. The tour received about 920,000 views, more than half of the total visits the palace receives a year.

On International Museum Day, museums in Beijing launched 94 events, including 50 "cloud exhibitions" and 15 livestreaming broadcasts covering seminars and "cloud tours".

Museums also have adopted popular tools and high-tech to enrich cloud-based event experiences.