Ministry to host conference on preserving documentary heritage
A national conference on protection and preservation of documentary heritage will be held by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in the central coastal city of Nha Trang in November.
The royal woodblocks of the Nguyen Dynasty, part of the world documentary heritage, are preserved at National Archives Centre No 4. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – A national conference on protection and preservation ofdocumentary heritage will be held by the Ministry of Culture, Sports andTourism in the central coastal city of Nha Trang in November.
The conference will serve as a venue forstate management agencies, experts and localities to evaluate the management,protection and promotion work for documentary heritage and cultural heritage asa whole.
Also discussed at the event will be measures to preserve the value of documentary heritage items after they arerecognised by the Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific.
The conference is expected to help local officials gain a deeper understandingabout the preservation of document heritage, remove obstacles, as well as better prepare dossiers to seek documentary heritage recognition.
Documentary heritage is an important asset of acountry as it keeps track on the nation or region’s history and socioeconomicdevelopment. Besides being protected by families, communal houses, temples andpagodas, a huge amount of heritage documents are being stored at the statearchive centres.
UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme wasestablished in 1992 as a global initiative to raise public awareness of thesignificance to preserving documentary heritage of humanity.
Vietnam has engaged in the programme since 2007, and had nine documentaryheritage items on the UNESCO’s list, including three at the world level and six at the Asia-Pacific level./.
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The royal woodblocks of the Nguyen Dynasty, part of the world documentary heritage, are preserved at National Archives Centre No 4. (Photo: VNA) 
