Original title: 19000000! The annual passenger flow of the Forbidden City has broken the record and won a 'world champion'
The annual passenger flow of the Palace Museum was renewed yesterday, breaking through 19 million for the first time. At 10:47:03 on December 19, with a visitor surnamed Yang from Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, checking in at the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City, the number of visitors received by the Palace Museum has exceeded 19 million in 2019, which is the first time that the annual audience of the Palace Museum has exceeded 19 million.
Since 2002, the annual passenger flow of the Palace Museum has reached 7 million. At that time, the museum with the largest passenger flow in the world last year was the Louvre, which received 8 million people a year. In the next 10 years, the annual passenger flow of the Palace Museum soared to 15 million. The Palace Museum has become the most popular Museum in the world.
In recent years, with the total number of visitors increasing year by year, the Palace Museum has expanded the open area, improved the number and quality of exhibitions in the Palace Museum, and adopted measures such as "limiting the flow of 80000 person times a day" and "all online pre-sale tickets", etc., so as to achieve stable peak season and not light off-season, eliminate the potential safety hazard of super large passenger flow, and improve the visitors' experience.