From August 31 to September 3, Ho Chi Minh Museum in Thua Thien Hue organized the exhibition “Ho Chi Minh – The Portrait of a man” at No.7 Le Loi Street, Hue City.

“The wave of protests against the US’s unjust war in Vietnam” is a thematic exhibition, held by Thua Thien Hue Historical Museum in collaboration with the War Remnants Museum Ho Chi Minh City, opened to welcome viewers on the afternoon of August 4 at No.1, 23/8 St., Hue City.

Apart from antiquities, ancient books and documents under the Nguyen Dynasty are invaluable and need to be collected, researched and introduced to the public.

With special affection for Emperor Ham Nghi, Mr. Gérard Chapuis has diligently collected the emperor's paintings and searched for information in French bibliographic sources, documents, books, and newspapers related to Emperor Ham Nghi to write this book.

On this occasion, Hue Monuments Conservation Center will also organize a contest "Sharing good books" among several schools, such as Quoc Hoc Hue High School for the Gifted, Hai Ba Trung High School, and Nguyen Hue High School to spread the reading culture to the younger generations.

With an aim to add more documents, photos and valuable resources of books to Tang Tho Lau (Archive Pavilion), Hue Monuments Conservation Center launched a ceremony to donate and receive documents and books, etc., with the theme “The Imprint of Tang Tho Lau in Our Mind”.

The exhibition introduced viewers to over 120 rare and precious Sino-Vietnamese Demotic documents. In fact, these documents are ordinationconferment papers and degrees that were preserved in villages, private homes and later restored.

The training course aimed to meet the urgent needs of each locality and libraries in the current period; contribute to improving professional expertise in safe preservation and promotion of the value of documents stored at the library.

At the book fair, the University of Sciences in collaboration with the Vietnam Book Culture and Knowledge Joint Stock Company introduced more than 2,000 books, espeically fine book titles about Hue and cultural heritage, along with books and documents of different types and genres for study and research purposes.

The collection and digitization of Han-Nom (Sino-Demotic characters) documentary heritage has been carried out for many years in many clans, private residences, villages and communes throughout the province. This quiet work is still being pursued by staff of the Provincial General Library, in the hope of preserving the ancient documents passed down by our ancestors.