Volunteers teach teens about history in a novel program

In a celebration event of the Capital Museum's summer program in late July, 50 young participants bowed to 18 museum guides, who have helped them broaden their horizons during the three-week program.

These guides, who've retired from various walks of life, were recruited by the museum as volunteers in the spring. They have been trained to explain the cultural relics in eight exhibition halls.

According to the museum's spokeswoman, Yang Dandan, the move to involve these middle-aged volunteers in the summer program for teenagers - who are studying or will study abroad - is a bid to pass down intangible heritage through a direct teacher-pupil experience. Each guide was assigned two or three young students during the three weeks.