The Vietnam National Museum of History has applied digital technology into its exhibitions. (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Twenty national treasures at theVietnam National Museum of History in Hanoi will be introduced to the publicvia a virtual gallery in June at the latest with support of digital technology.
This is the museum’s very first effort to develop itself into a digital museumin the coming time.
It takes a long time to prepare for an online museum due to a large number ofexhibits, said director of the museum Nguyen Van Doan, adding that informationabout the objects must be studied carefully as well.
“We have to spend one year on digitalising the information about the 20national treasures”, he said.
The museum’s 3D virtual exhibitions have been popular with visitors since 2013,featuring Oc Eo Culture, Dong Son Culture, Buddhist heritages, and Vietnameseancient lamps, among others.
Actually, the technology has created new vitality for museum activities, whichhave long been considered as less innovative and not attractive.
However, the technology is out-of-date now, and the museumneeds to do something new, Doan said.
According to Vice President of the Vietnam National Cultural Heritage Council NguyenVan Kim, the museum will become more attractive to visitors if excellent visualeffects are put in place and sound scientific information is provided.
Kim suggested the museum restore ruins that are normally difficult to imaginesuch as the Ly Dynasty’s Palace in the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long.
Currently, the Vietnam National Museum of History is preserving about 200,000objects and materials of Vietnamese cultural history, among which there arenearly 110,000 antiques and 20 national treasures from prehistory to 1945.
Thereare rare and valuable collections representing the history and culture ofVietnam such as: archaeological artifacts from Early Paleolithic Age to MetalAge, a collection of Dong Son Culture, a collection of Vietnamese traditionalglazed ceramics, bronze items of the Le - Nguyen Dynasties, Champa stonesculptures, a collection of foreign ceramics originating from China, Japan,India and Southeast Asia.
In the historicalperiod from the mid-19th century to the present, there are more than 80,000documents and artifacts relating to the Revolutionary history, the CommunistParty of Vietnam, President Ho Chi Minh and leaders of the Communist Party ofVietnam./.
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