From the early morning of April 21, the VnExpress Marathon Imperial Hue 2024, organized by VnExpress Newspaper in collaboration with the People's Committee of Thua Thien Hue Province and the FPT Online Services Joint Stock Company (FPT Online), officially kicked off in the romantic city of Hue.

Two new publications, which are the volume 1 and the volume 2 of the book themed “Hue, the Magical Imperial City” under the project on "Establishing and developing Hue Bookcase" in 2024, are expected to be released on the occasion of the 3rd Vietnam Book and Reading Culture Day 2024. The event is organized by Thua Thien Hue General Library.

Inspired by patterns on Nine Dynastic Urns of the Nguyen Dynasty, which located in Hue Imperial Citadel, nearly 60 wood engraving artworks have been curated and introduced to the public on the morning of March 19th at Le Ba Dang Art Center (Hue Museum of Fine Arts, 15 Le Loi Street, Hue City).

The organizing committee of Hue Festival 2024 has recently unveiled the official poster for the upcoming festival, scheduled to take place in mid-June from the 7th to the 12th. The poster draws inspiration primarily from the restored royal patterns on the Kien Trung Palace in the Imperial Citadel, Hue city.

Recently on January 12, Hue Monuments Conservation Center (HMCC) held a report to the scientific committee on the project of restoring Can Chanh Hall in the Imperial City of the Nguyen Dynasty. The project proposes restoring the entire hall with the exterior and interior following the original in the Nguyen Dynasty.

On the afternoon of January 21, the exhibition by the Huong River Antique Pottery Museum, included a cultural and artistic seminar along with a calligraphy exhibition focused on the theme “Imperial City of Hue in Poetry - Emperor Thieu Tri and the Collection of Ngu De Do Hoi Verses”.

This is the theme of the exhibition organized by Hue Monuments Conservation Centre (HMCC) in coordination with National Archives Center 1, held on the afternoon of January 17th at Ngo Mon Square, Imperial City.

Hue Monuments Conservation Center said that it would repair and embellish the embankment system of Ho Thanh hao (the protective moat surrounding the Citadel) on the Eastern side of Hue Imperial City monument. This is a category under the project on "Preserving, repairing and embellishing Hue Imperial City system - The component of renovating and embellishing monument", which was adjusted by the Provincial People's Committee in the Decision No. 1452/QD-UBND.

In the process of digitalizing ancient documents about Can Chanh Palace, Nguyen Tan Anh Phong and his collaborators discovered one of the two glass paintings currently hung at the Department of History, College of Sciences, Hue University is the precious painting which used to belong to Can Chanh Palace in the Imperial City.

The outdoor exhibition at Phung Tien Palace, Hue Imperial City offered viewers an opportunity to learn about the architecture, spiritual life under the Nguyen Dynasty as well as the cultural, historical and artistic values of this era through virtual reconstruction combined with reality.