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Vietnam helps Laos upgrade army history museum

A ceremony was held in Vientiane on December 13 to inaugurate a project upgrading the Lao People's Army History Museum at a cost of 4.6 million USD funded from the Ministry of National Defence of Vietnam.
Vietnam helps Laos upgrade army history museum ảnh 1The project upgrading the Lao People's Army History Museum is inaugurated on December 13. (Photo: VNA)
Vientiane (VNA) – A ceremony was held inVientiane on December 13 to inaugurate a project upgrading the Lao People'sArmy History Museum at a cost of 4.6 million USD funded from theMinistry of National Defence of Vietnam.

Addressing the event, Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Ministerof National Defence General Chansamone Chanyalath said that the project, which startedin 2019 and includes the upgrading of the museum’s structural system andexhibition areas. The project has turned the museum into a centre for storing, preservingand managing historical artifacts, keeping records of victories of the Lao People'sArmy under the leadership of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.

The museum has also become a destination for domestic andforeign visitors who are keen on exploring the history of the Lao People's Armythrough artifacts marking and reenacting important historical events, he said.

With an area of about 17,000sq.m in the capital city's centre, the Lao People's ArmyHistory Museum was put into operation in 1976 and has gone through a number of repairs and upgrades./.
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