What Museums Can Do amid the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Yangzhou Museum

China suffered the new wave of indigenous COVID-19 epidemic emanating in 2022. Yangzhou as one of cities of Jiangsu, took one of its worst poundings since the epidemic broke out. The epidemic hit the city, with substantial impact on their cultural undertakings. This article gives an account of how the museums and their local communities in Yangzhou have responded to the calamities, analyzes their interactions, and shares the museum experiences of organizing cultural activities jointly with the craftspeople of local intangible cultural heritage since 2020, when COVID-19 broke out.

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