HCM City’s museums are offering online displays and tours as part of their effort to develop business amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo courtesy of HCM City Museum of Vietnamese History)The Ao Dai Museum in Thu Duc city has launched a special exhibition programmecalled Ao dai (Vietnamese traditional dress) on its fanpage.
The programme offers online displays featuring long robe designs in differentperiods dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries.
Special collections of long robes belonging to political, cultural and artisticstalwarts like war heroine Nguyen Thi Dinh, the first woman major general inthe Vietnam People's Army, former deputy president Nguyen Thi Binh, and TrinhThi Hoa, former director of the HCM City History Museum, are included.
The programme’s highlighted display features garments owned by theatre iconssuch as People’s Artists Kim Cuong and Bach Tuyet, considered gurus of cailuong (reformed opera).
Online display topics will be changed every week to help viewers learn moreabout Vietnamese culture and lifestyles.
“I was able to search for useful things after viewing the online displays ofthe Ao Dai Museum,” said Tran Nguyen Bao Duy, a 12th-grade student at theVietnam-Australia International Secondary and High School in HCM City.
“I learned more and shared the history of the Vietnamese traditional long dresswith foreign students, which raised their awareness about traditional fashionin Vietnam,” he said.
The Ao Dai Museum, owned by celebrated fashion designer Si Hoang of HCM City,opened in 2014.
The HCM City Museum of Vietnamese History in July launched online exhibitionswith 3D technology, smart apps and websites.
“We wanted to expand the museum’s activities and showcases to the public duringthe pandemic,” said the museum’s deputy director Nguyen Khac Xuan Thi in arecent interview with local media.
“With digital technology, viewers can see connections between objects andcontexts, and visualise and learn about historical periods and culture throughspace and time.”
"We are working to build the museum’s 18 showcase rooms as interactiveareas by using modern technology applications to convey the most effectivecontent and information,” she said.
The museum’s highlighted online exhibitions include a showcase featuringcollections of Victor Thomas Holbé, a French pharmacist who worked in South Vietnamin the 1920s.
The exhibition displays ancient artefacts, paintings and sculptures from China,Japan, India and Vietnam, mostly from the late 18th and 19th centuries, madewith stones, gems, ivory and ceramics.
It also introduces antiques of the Oc Eo Culture, a rich culture of the ancientkingdom of Phu Nam which was discovered in 1944 via artefacts found at sitesnear Ba The Mountain, now Oc Eo town in Thoai Son district in southern An Giangprovince.
Another exhibition features artefacts of Vietnamese history dating from theprehistoric era to the end of the Nguyen dynasty (1802-1945), the country'slast royal family.
The exhibitions can be viewed on the website www.baotanglichsutphcm.com.vn.
A new online exhibition, called Vietnam Niem Tin Chien Thang (Vietnam -- Beliefand Victory), featuring photos and paintings of Vietnamese people in theCOVID-19 fight, was launched by the HCM City Southern Women’s Museum in June.
It displays works by artist Le Sa Long and photos from reporters in HCM City.
Guests can view the exhibition by using the museum’s website, fanpage andYouTube.
The online exhibition also appears on the websites of cultural centres in theprovinces of Ca Mau and Quang Ninh.
“We hope to exhibit Vietnam Niem Tin Chien Thang at Chi Lang Park in District 1in October,” said the museum’s female director Nguyen Thi Tham.
Tham said her museum offered for the first time exhibition rooms using a smartmuseum mobile app in January. Guests can install the Bao Tang PNNB app on IOSor Android devices and explore the photos on display.
The app provides guests with information about well-known historical figures,historical background and video clips, giving visitors a better understandingof the works.
“Our museum’s app acts as an electronic guide in different languages. Throughthe app on smartphones or tablets, the system accurately locates where visitorsare standing and displays information about nearby objects in an animated microimage. It also helps to minimise the work of the tour guide while creating amodern, friendly exhibition environment,” said Tham./.
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