Ho Chi Minh City (VNA) – On the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of the establishment of the Ho Chi Minh Metropolis Background Museum (1979) and National Day (September 2), an exhibition of jade antiques has opened the doorways to the Museum on Tuesday.
This exhibition lasts until eventually the finish of November.
In accordance to Hoang Anh Tuan, director of the Museum, in addition to the jade antiquities on display screen belonging to the collection of Vietnamese antiquities dating back to prehistoric moments belonging to distinctive cultures such as Dong Son, Sa Huynh, Dong Nai at the commencing of the 20th century, there are also jade antiquities Chinese preserved by this Museum.
In particular, the spotlight of this show is Dr. Duong Quynh Hoa’s (aka Duong Ha) antiquities selection with approximately 3,400 artifacts. In addition to Vietnamese antiquities, the general public has the option to ponder these from international international locations and the antiquities collected by Victor Thomas Holbé (1857-1927). This assortment is regarded a premise in the creation of the Blanchard de la Brosse Museum in 1929, which grew to become the first in Cochinchina (the current Ho Chi Minh Town Record Museum).
It was in 1927 that the governor of Cochinchina, Blanchard de la Brosse, issued an ordinance establishing the museum, of which Jean Bouchot was appointed curator.
In the beginning, the museum exhibited the assortment of the pharmacist Victor T. Holbé, such as very important jade treasures, Chinese ceramics from the most lovely occasions, Japanese lacquers, parts from the Khmer and Javanese civilizations. Yet another selection, that of the French archaeologist Louis Malleret, director of the French Faculty of the Considerably East (EFEO) from 1949 to 1956, with jewels of the Oc Eo culture as nicely as far more than 5,000 rare monographs on Indochina and the Considerably East East .
In 1979, the Museum transformed its identify a single past time, to Ho Chi Minh Metropolis History Museum.-VNA
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