Visitors at the exhibition (Photo VGP)Hanoi (VNA) – An exhibition featuringthe unique art of French architecture was opened in Hanoi on October 27.
With the dream ofbuilding a French-style administrative capital in the Indochina, Frencharchitects constructed a number of buildings in the heart of Hanoi over the past century.
The building wereerected at the end of the 19th and early 20th centurysuch as the Hanoi Opera House, Louis Finot museum (now the Vietnam HistoryMuseum), Hanoi Post Office, Indochina University (now Hanoi NationalUniversity), Indochina Finance Office (now the headquarters of the Ministry ofForeign Affairs), and Doumer bridge (currently Long Bien bridge).
Director of the StateRecords and Archives Department under the Ministry of Home Affairs Dang ThanhTung said the exhibition enables visitors to access to French culture and aimsto raise public awareness of preserving and promoting the cultural heritagevalues of French architecture in Hanoi.
The event kicked start a series of cooperative activities between the Vietnamesedepartment, the Embassy of France in Vietnam, and the French NationalArchives, he added.
French Ambassador toVietnam Bertrand Lortholary said the exhibition took place on the occasion ofthe 100th founding anniversary of the Indochina library andarchives, which proves the long-term relations between Vietnam and France, especially in thepreservation and promotion of archival heritage.
The exhibition runs until November 5.-VNA
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