Shanghai International Studies University, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, has opened a Museum of Language on its campus in Songjiang District. It’s the first museum in China to focus on the diversity of language in the world. Yi Yonggang, the university’s publicity office director, said: “Language is related to both the origin and future of human beings and is living fossile of the evolution of civilization. Universities have a responsibility to pass on and innovate culture while a museum is an important platform to do so. “The Museum of Language is the latest attempt of our university to give full play to our strength and features in cultural inheritance and innovation. We hope it could be a platform for experts and scholars to carry out academic exchanges, for teachers and students to do research and teaching and for the whole society to carry out public scientific education.”