3D design of the national history museum (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The Ministry of Constructionannounced recently that the national history museum project will be implementedin 2021 at the earliest.
In its report to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in July, theministry updated the project’s condition and proposed two plans.
First is to hold a meeting of the State steering committee onbuilding the museum.
Second is to solve present difficulties and command relatedagencies to conduct the PM’s decision on project funding announced in August,2015.
Nguyen Quang Nam, Director of the project’s Construction andInvestment Management Board, said the ministry did not promote projectimplementation at present.
“We plan to start it in 2021 when the country’ssocio-economic conditions are favourable. At present, we focus on thepreparation, especially on building the content and solutions to collect andclassify exhibits,” said Nam.
Nam also spoke of the importance of the ministry’s report incalling for official instructions and financial support in the near future.
The scheme of building a national history museum was approvedby Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in 2006.
In 2015, PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc concluded that because of thedifficult State budget, it was important to conduct the project carefully.
Therefore, he asked the Ministry of Construction and theMinistry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to command the project’s managementboard as well as other functional forces in research and preparation from 2015to 2020.
He also asked the Ministry of Planning and Investment toallocate the additional investment budget for the project in 2015, to put itinto the list of medium-term public investment plans from 2016 to 2020 andassigned the Ministry of Construction to build the 2016-2020 capital plan.
However, the project is not planned to receive capital from2015 to 2017 and from the 2017-2020 medium-term public investment plan.
Therefore, the project management board has not had a budgetto maintain its operation and pay for workers.
The national history museum will cost about 11.3 trillion VND,not including the cost of building content and exhibitions.
The10-ha museum complex will be built in the western WestLake area.-VNA
A contract on consultancy services for construction investment and design of the National History Museum was signed in Hanoi on Jan. 5 between the project management unit (PMU) and Japan’s Nikken Sekkei.
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3D design of the national history museum (Source: VNA) 
