Museum catches up with technology

In an exhibition hall of the Nanjing Municipal Museum, Wang Xiaoqi is squatting down with her cellphone while scanning the barcode of a porcelain vase.

The vase is among the 40-plus miscellaneous antiques on display in NMM in Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu province. Each antique has a quick response code that details its history when scanned by cellphones.

"Not only can I upload the information on the vase to my microblog, but also store the description on my phone and study it when I get home," Wang says.