Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is making its way to more Chinese museums across the country. This is to support efforts to pass on Chinese culture and history. In the spirit of International Museum Day, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage has launched a plan with internet giant Baidu, over the use of AI technology at museums. Here's more.

The AI technology will be used at 1,400 museums nationwide, including Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum in Northwest China's Shaanxi province, the Shanghai History Museum, and Suzhou Museum in East China's Jiangsu province.

An online map, which carries information from over 1,000 digital museums nationwide, is also available as of May 18th. The smart map can help plan a visitor's itinerary in a museum as well as exhibit displays.

In recent years, China's museums have made been putting more effort into reaching out to people, especially younger visitors, with digital technology.

To celebrate its 92nd anniversary in 2017, Beijing's Palace Museum launched a new digital exhibition entitled Discovering the Hall of Mental Cultivation. The exhibit marks the museum's latest step to integrate Chinese traditional culture with technological innovation.

PENG YAN, DEPUTY TEAM LEADER DEPARTMENT OF IT, IMAGING & DIGITAL MEDIA "In the last two years, our skills in digital technology have reached a level where we are now ready to showcase them to the world. We have come to realize that people welcome opportunities to learn Chinese history and culture in a digital way. They have been very accepting of this digital experience -- especially younger people. We believe tourists will be happy about this exhibition."

The Palace Museum is currently constructing a digital Forbidden City, as the royal palace is set to celebrate its 600th anniversary in 2020.

Digital technology is also being utilized at the Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Dunhuang, northwest China's Gansu Province.

"Digital Dunhuang", a website launched in 2015, offers tourists a virtual tour of the 28 of the Mogao Grotto caves and two of the Yulin Grottoes through high-definition pictures and virtual reality.

The website features photos, video clips, archival materials and a 360-degree view of the millennium-old caves carved from a sandstone cliff near Dunhuang City.