VietNamNet Bridge – Since the beginning of this year, the city's museums have brought hundreds of mobile exhibitions to schools, universities and industrial parks in city districts and southern provinces.

The city branch of the Ho Chi Minh Museum last week opened a photo exhibition featuring President Ho Chi Minh's life and career in HCM City's culture house in District 1. It will travel to the Culture Houses in Phu Nhuan and Tan Binh districts next month.

Photo exhibitions and documentaries, including President Ho Chi Minh and Viet Nam's Working Class and President Ho and the Task of Education have been organised by the museum at the Tan Thuan Industrial Park in District 7, and at several schools and colleges in Thu Duc and Phu Nhuan districts.

Tens of thousands of young people have visited the exhibitions, according to Nguyen Thi Hoa Xinh, curator of the Ho Chi Minh Museum in HCM City.

The HCM City Museum, besides talks on history of the city, has brought to colleges and universities many mobile exhibitions of photos and documentaries featuring the student movements of then-Sai Gon against foreign aggressors from 1930 to 1975.

The War Remnants Museum in HCM City has also organised talks and exhibitions in remote areas in the Central Highlands and many Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces including Soc Trang, Ben Tre and Ca Mau.

The museum this year diversified activities, including talks and exhibitions to mark 50 years after the US military's first spraying of toxic chemical Agent Orange on southern Viet Nam's jungles during the American War.

One of its activities was taking a Memories of War photo collection by well-known artist Chu Chi Thanh to A Luoi District in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, which has suffered heavily from Agent Orange.

"We're impressed by photos depicting the hardships of soldiers and damage caused by the war," said Nguyen Van Dung, a resident of A Luoi District.

The museum's photo collections by well-known artists featuring Vietnamese children who were victims of the war are on display in HCM City's Can Gio suburban district and coastal Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province.

"The number of mobile exhibitions organised by our museum in provinces since the beginning of this year has increased 25 per cent compared with the same period last year," said Huynh Ngoc Van, director of the War Remnants Museum.

"Taking museums to the public, particularly to islands, border regions and rural and remote areas, is one of our goals to attract more viewers," Van said.

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