As an important part of China"s public cultural service system, the museum is an important way to meet the people"s cultural needs. In order to study the operation of Chinese museums in recent years, especially after free admissions, this paper calcul...
As an important part of China"s public cultural service system, the museum is an important way to meet the people"s cultural needs. In order to study the operation of Chinese museums in recent years, especially after free admissions, this paper calculates the relative efficiency of the museums in the 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) of the mainland from 2005 to 2014 by using the DEA method. It finds the overall operations of museum improved, and that the free charge policy played a positive role in promoting the development of museums. The number of provinces with effective DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) has been increasing since 2008. The comprehensive efficiency value and the pure technical efficiency value as well as the scale efficiency value has risen unceasingly, while the gap between provinces has been shrinking, leaving regional differences of museum efficiency is small. The free admission policy had a relatively greater positive effect in the East as compared to the West.