Ho Chi Minh City 's museums have improved their way of doing businessand are attracting people's attention away from theatres and cinemasplus a plethora of other modern amusements.
The Ho Chi Minh Museum welcomes more than 800 visitors, including a hundred foreigners, every day.
"Through our museum, visitors can learn more about President Ho ChiMinh, his life and career, particularly about the great contributions hemade to the country and people," the museum's director Nguyen Thi HoaXinh said.
Visitors can view many documentaries and images to get a more informed experience of the late President.
In recent years, the War Remnants Museum has worked closelywith schools and universities to organise tours for students.
The museum's management board wants visitors, particularly youngsters,both Vietnamese and foreign, to be not just educated but entertained.
The museum that opened in 1975 houses documentaries,images, artifacts and objects, most of them very rare – providing thevisitors with a deeper knowledge of Vietnam's history and people,focusing on the French and American wars.
Its staffhas drawn up special programmes to attract secondary school anduniversity students – who like learning history through tangible objectsinstead of reading about events and numbers in books.
The museum's entertainment area called Bo Cau Trang (White Dove)displays daily objects used during the Lunar New Year or Tet bydifferent ethnic minority groups. The new section attracts a lot oflocal and foreign visitors.
Music and song programmes staged by disabled children are also highlights.
The Vietnam History Museum recently added a new sectiondedicated to the Tay Son popular uprising in the 18th century with morethan 400 antiques in porcelain, stone, bronze, iron, wood and paper.
The new display that has 1,000 visitors a day has enriched theirunderstanding of Vietnamese culture, even for cultural and historicalresearchers.
"My museum's guides are skilled inforeign languages. They are also dynamic, have good communicationskills, and understand how to make a presentation," said Xinh, addingher museum is working hard to offer visitors more programmes, themes andgoals to provide them more choice./.
The Ho Chi Minh Museum welcomes more than 800 visitors, including a hundred foreigners, every day.
"Through our museum, visitors can learn more about President Ho ChiMinh, his life and career, particularly about the great contributions hemade to the country and people," the museum's director Nguyen Thi HoaXinh said.
Visitors can view many documentaries and images to get a more informed experience of the late President.
In recent years, the War Remnants Museum has worked closelywith schools and universities to organise tours for students.
The museum's management board wants visitors, particularly youngsters,both Vietnamese and foreign, to be not just educated but entertained.
The museum that opened in 1975 houses documentaries,images, artifacts and objects, most of them very rare – providing thevisitors with a deeper knowledge of Vietnam's history and people,focusing on the French and American wars.
Its staffhas drawn up special programmes to attract secondary school anduniversity students – who like learning history through tangible objectsinstead of reading about events and numbers in books.
The museum's entertainment area called Bo Cau Trang (White Dove)displays daily objects used during the Lunar New Year or Tet bydifferent ethnic minority groups. The new section attracts a lot oflocal and foreign visitors.
Music and song programmes staged by disabled children are also highlights.
The Vietnam History Museum recently added a new sectiondedicated to the Tay Son popular uprising in the 18th century with morethan 400 antiques in porcelain, stone, bronze, iron, wood and paper.
The new display that has 1,000 visitors a day has enriched theirunderstanding of Vietnamese culture, even for cultural and historicalresearchers.
"My museum's guides are skilled inforeign languages. They are also dynamic, have good communicationskills, and understand how to make a presentation," said Xinh, addingher museum is working hard to offer visitors more programmes, themes andgoals to provide them more choice./.
