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VNA hands over historical items, photos to press museum

The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) held a ceremony on June 4 to hand over a number of historical artefacts and photos to the Vietnam Press Museum.
VNA hands over historical items, photos to press museum ảnh 1VNA Deputy General Director Le Quoc Minh (L) presents the exhibits to the Vietnam Press Museum (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) held a ceremony onJune 4 to hand over a number of historical artefacts and photos to the VietnamPress Museum.

Theactivity aimed to mark the 95th anniversary of Vietnam RevolutionaryPress Day and welcome the Congress of the VNA Journalists’ Association for the2020-2025 tenure.

Typical among the 14 precious artefacts, selected from thousands of the VNA’sitems and photos, are a transmitter used by reporters and technicians of theLiberation News Agency to broadcast news from the battlefields to Hanoi duringthe war against the US, and a national flag with the autographs of the captainand political official of the KN22 ship presented to the Vietnam News Agencycorrespondents in June 2014.

A photo featuring Uncle Ho and VNA officials and reporters together with their childrenat a ceremony celebrating the President’s 60th birthday at the Viet Bac SafetyZone was also given to the museum this time.
VNA hands over historical items, photos to press museum ảnh 2Some of the artefacts presented by the VNA (Photo: VNA)

Addressing the ceremony, VNA Deputy General Director Le Quoc Minh, President ofthe VNA Journalists’ Association, said over the past time, the agency’s leadershave directed relevant units to collect items and meet witnesses to recordstories related to artefacts and photos about the history of the VietnamesePress as well as the tradition of the Vietnam News Agency.

The VNA is willing to share valuable artefacts and photos it has with themuseum to introduce to people at home and abroad, he noted.

Minh said he hopes that in the coming time, besides traditional exhibits, the Vietnam Press Museum will focus on displaying modern media productsin the digital era. With this content, the VNA will contribute many of its innovativeand pioneering information products, he affirmed.

Director of the Vietnam Press Museum Tran Thi Kim Hoa thanked theVietnam News Agency for its support and assistance for the museum since it wasestablished in 2017.

She said that the museum has so far received more than 20,000 artefacts, mostof which are original ones. It  isexpected to open for visitors on the occasion of the VietnamRevulutionary Press Day (June 21)./.
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