BEIJING, March 24 (UPI) -- Admission to 33 of Beijing's museums will be free starting Friday, with many of the institutions implementing procedures to handle an increase in visitors.
Most of the affected museums are expected to limit the number of visitors each day by distributing a set number of tickets, Kong Fanzhi, head of the Beijing Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage, told Xinhua.
The Capital Museum will require visitors to reserve tickets in advance.
"The designed daily receiving capacity of the museum is 3,000," said Han Yong, the museum's deputy curator. "Visitors should bring their ID cards to get the free tickets."
The Beijing museums to offer free admission include public museums and memorial halls run by municipal or district cultural and heritage protection departments, as well as patriotic educational bases, Xinhua said.
