Entrance fee will be charged at Nghe An Museum

On the afternoon of August 9, the Provincial People's Committee held a meeting to listen to and give opinions on the Project of researching, collecting, inventorying, preserving, and restoring documents and artifacts of Nghe An Museum in the period of 2019-2023. Comrade Le Minh Thong - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired.

Visiting the embroidery exhibition at Nghe An Museum. Photo courtesy

Currently, Nghe An Museum is preserving and conserving over 31,000 artifacts on natural resources, ethnology, archaeology, revolution, and resistance. In particular, Nghe An Museum has 3 artifacts recognized as national treasures, including: Dagger with handle of snake statue holding elephant leg; Bronze ladle with handle shaped like elephant and box containing relics of Thap Nhan.

In recent times, the museum has organized many mobile and on-site thematic exhibitions, welcoming hundreds of groups of visitors for sightseeing, research, and study.

Conditions for storing and preserving artifacts are still limited. Illustrative photo

However, due to the limitation of facilities, the display and preservation of artifacts face many difficulties; The work of building a database still has many shortcomings, thus leading to difficulties in managing documents, artifacts, searching for information, serving researchers; The number of documents and artifacts is not commensurate with the cultural heritage potential of the province;...

The project "Improving the effectiveness of research, collection, inventory and preservation of artifacts of Nghe An Museum in the period of 2019-2023" sets out the goal of building Nghe An Museum into a place to store, preserve and introduce historical-cultural values ​​serving the work of research, study, research and traditional education, while promoting the unique cultural values ​​of the locality and the nation to the public. Moving towards organizing entrance fees, appropriate service activities, gradually becoming self-sufficient in operating costs. At the same time, building Nghe An Museum into a dynamic cultural institution, best promoting the value of cultural heritages preserved here.

The project implementation cost is 15.5 billion VND, mainly based on annual state budget investment.

After listening to the representative of the Department of Culture and Sports briefly present the project content, relevant departments and branches gave comments and contributed to the project content.

Comrade Le Minh Thong concluded the meeting. Photo: Thanh Phuc

Concluding the meeting, comrade Le Minh Thong requested the Department of Culture and Sports to continue to complete the project; absorb the comments of relevant departments and branches at the meeting to submit to the Provincial People's Committee for approval at the next regular meeting. Specifically: Adjust the project time to 2025; Reassess the current situation and urgent needs to submit the project for approval; Clarify the financial allocation for each item...