The Southern Women Museum in HCM City. (Source: VNA) Ho Chi MinhCity (VNA) – HCM City will apply information technology toreinvigorate its museum tours and bring museums to more viewers.
Tran Vinh Tuyen,Vice Chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee, set out the task at a meetingwith relevant departments and a group of students from the University ofNatural Sciences on January 4 on implementing the “Smart Interactive Museum” project.
According toTuyen, the project will not only help preserve cultural and historic values butalso promote education on history and traditions for young generations.
The project willfirst be implemented at the Southern Women Museum and the Cu Chi Tunnelhistoric site. By the end of the year, the project will be implemented at allmuseums and cultural and historical relic sites in the city.
The SmartInteractive Museum project will allow visitors to view and listen to allinformation related to the museum, artifacts and documents in differentlanguages on mobile devices. Viewers can also interact with artifacts andmaterials via a 3D virtual museum.
The applicationwill help bring the virtual artifacts to those who are not able to come to themuseum.
Nguyen Thi Tham,director of the Southern Women Museum, expressed her hope that the applicationwill help the museum reach more people, better meeting the public’s demand andattracting more tourists.-VNA
