Dear Reader, Firstly, on behalf of The Editorial Board of Vietnam National Museum History’s website, I would like to express my gratitude to all readers who have paid attention and given support to our website.
This website is our official website, a credible online source for providing and sharing information of operations of the Vietnam National Museum of History and other Vietnamese and foreign museums. Moreover, we also post news and articles about local and international history, culture, heritage conservation and archaeological excavation activities.
With our efforts and hope to make our website to be a bridge to promote Vietnamese culture and connect to friends locally and internationally, we would like to launch 2 more columns as followings:
Column: The friend museums
You can find useful information about domestic and overseas museums. We hope that through this column, local and international museums can be connected to exchange and introduce about ourselves.
Column: “90 years of Dong Son culture” on celebrating 90 years of finding and studying about Dong Son culture (1924 - 2014)
Dong Son culture is known to be a culture at the Iron Age in Vietnam and discovered in 1924 through bronze collections, at Dong Son village, next by Ma River, now Ham Rong district, Thanh Hoa City. In the last 90 years, many archaeological proofs have been found and studied. Archaeologists locally and internationally have pointed out that it was a culture located in the North Vietnam and extended to the Southern regions. Especially, it is a culture with many differences from other ancient cultures.
With the view to provide you comprehensive understandings about this culture, we are going to sum up publications made by local and foreign scholars in the magazines such as The Archaeology Magazine and Vietnam Antique and Art in 2004 (80th anniversary of Dong Son culture) and 2009 (85th anniversary).
We hope that, with those 2 new columns, you will enjoy yourself with necessary understandings as well as web’s forms.
For a better website, The Editorial Board of Vietnam National Museum of History’s website welcomes all the idea contributions to our web’s content and interface from readers.
Thank you,
Editor-in-chief
Vu Manh Ha
English: Tran Trang