Monthly Archives: December 2021

Photo exhibition Vietnam Heritage Photo Awards Vietnam Heritage Photo Awards 2012

In order to celebrate Vietnam Heritage Day, Vietnam Heritage Magazine in collaboration with the Cultural Heritage Association of Ho Chi Minh City organized the Vietnam Heritage Photo Awards 2012, which was launched in June 2012. 2012. The contest seeks stories and diverse perspectives on the topic of Vietnamese heritage, values ​​that need to be preserved […]

Ho Chi Minh City Museum is among 100 interesting things

   On June 14, 2012, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Ho Chi Minh City launched the voting program “Ho Chi Minh City – 100 interesting things” for the second time. Voting program lasted for 45 days. The ceremony to announce the voting results took place at the end of July 2012. Museum of Ho […]

Southern Resistance War – Heroic history in the autumn of 1945

    76 years ago, on the night of September 22 to 23, 1945, the French colonialists relied on British troops to invade the headquarters of the revolutionary government in Saigon, starting a war of aggression. our country for the second time. Before the French action openly waged war of aggression, on the morning of […]

Opening thematic exhibition “Tran Van Khe – One hundred years remain forever”

On the occasion of the 16th Vietnam Cultural Heritage Day (November 23, 2005 – November 23, 2021), the Ho Chi Minh City Museum held the opening of the thematic exhibition  “Tran Van Khe – One Hundred Years of Remains”. forever” introduces more than 200 documents, artifacts, pictures about the life and career of Professor, Dr. Tran […]

Talk: “Preserving and promoting the value of communal houses in Ho Chi Minh City”

             The communal house is the traditional symbol of Vietnamese villages. Communal house was formed in Ho Chi Minh City and the Southern region as an indispensable need for culture and beliefs of the Vietnamese exiles in the early days of reclamation and establishment of hamlets. The communal house architectural […]

Exhibition “Some images of communal houses in Ho Chi Minh City”

  Communal house is a common house with special architecture, a symbol of the village community. The village communal house is not only a place to worship the village god Thanh Hoang, but also a meeting place to solve village affairs, a place to organize festivals and cultural activities of the Vietnamese village community that […]

Introducing new books in 2011 – 2012 of the Ho Chi Minh City Museum Library

   1. Ha Van Tan – Nguyen Van Ku – Pham Ngoc Long, Vietnam Pagoda , Social Science Publishing House, Hanoi 1993           Buddhism was introduced to Vietnam around the beginning of the Common Era, during which time temples gradually sprang up in different times and spaces in Vietnam.           Through nearly 2,000 years of Vietnamese Buddhist […]

Introducing newly imported books of Ho Chi Minh City Museum Library

 Nguyen Phuong Nam – The defeat of a flock of hawks (About American presidents in the Vietnam war) – National Political Publishing House – Hanoi – 2010. War is in the past. The country has been clean of enemies for 35 years. That period of time, for some people can be forgotten, but for many […]

Ho Chi Minh City Museum receives artifacts donated by Mr. Dang Minh Truc’s family in Phu Yen

On March 25, 2015, the delegation of the Ho Chi Minh City Museum led by comrade Phan Thi Phuong Oanh, Deputy Director of the Museum, visited and received artifacts of the family of Mr. Dang Minh Truc and Mrs. Vu Thi Tam, former soldier delivering the postal service of Phu Yen province during the anti-American […]

Introducing the inventory of artifacts

 The inventory and preservation of artifacts is one of the key tasks of the museum. Ho Chi Minh City Museum is currently storing and preserving 45,666 artifacts, divided into 133 thematic collections, including 14 rare and precious collections with various materials such as ceramics, terracotta, and terracotta. , metal, woodwork, paper, cloth, plastic, horn bone, ivory… […]