On 16/9/2014, VNMH Museum organized a seminar entitled "Museum's education - experiences and solutions to raise the quality of education". It was hold by the collaboration between VNMH Museum and Ton Duc Thang Museum and Vietnam Museums Network. It aimed at working out the orientations and solutions to raise the educational quality of museums and historical relics on young people.
It was attended by M.A. Nguyen Huu Toan - Deputy Director of Cultural Heritage Department; Dr. Nguyen Van Cuong – Director of VNMH Museum, Dr. Tran Xuan Thao – Director of Ton Duc Thang Museum; Dr. Nguyen Van Huy – Vietnam Museums Network and representatives from museums and historical relics nationwide.
From left: M.A Nguyen Huu Toan, Dr. Nguyen Van Huy, Dr. Nguyen Van Cuong, Dr. Tran Xuan Thao – seminar's chairmen
The seminar has provided 07 essays made by Vietnam Women Museum, War Remnant Museum and VNMH Museum.
Each essay presented it's museum's experiences in educational activities, which set mainly for students, such as: "I love history club" and "History Lesson" (VNMH Museum); Visiting museum – discovery – interactive education – public activities – mobile exhibition (Vietnam Women Museum).
It is a fact that the museum's education has been paid attention by almost museums. In Vietnam, many museums have built their concrete plan of education, prominently, the VNMH Museum with the program of "I love history club" and "History Lesson". This program has been done for 7 years and it has been also deployed in other museums.
Panorama of the seminar
However, the educational activities at the museums in generals and VNMH Museum in particular have faced many difficulties, for example, the scripts and skills in organizing the educational programs. Thus, the seminar is very necessary to find out the solutions to raise the quality of museum's education. By this, they can learn from each other and support each other and develop the museums and historical relics to become reliable centers of education.
News/photos: Thu Nhuan
EN: Tran Trang