The most diverse private museum on the subject
On November 20, the 42nd anniversary of Vietnamese Teachers' Day, retired teacher Nguyen Quang Cuong (67 years old, from Binh An commune, Loc Ha district, Ha Tinh province) was honored and proud when his Diamond Museum in Binh An commune, Loc Ha district was awarded a certificate of Vietnamese record by the representative of the Vietnam Record Organization.
According to the certification of the Vietnam Record Organization, the Hoa Cuong Museum is a non-public museum that introduces and displays a collection of multi-material artifacts along with documents, images, and writings about the history, culture, and life of the Vietnamese people collected over 50 years with the most diverse topics in Vietnam.
Mr. Nguyen Quang Cuong shared that since he was in high school, he had the intention of preserving artifacts of the present and the past to later open a family museum.
Thinking is doing, for over 50 years, Mr. Cuong has been searching, purchasing, and collecting thousands of ancient and rare artifacts with diverse themes.
In 2017, after leaving Quy Nhon University, Mr. Cuong started building the 1,500m2 Diamond Museum in his hometown of Binh An commune, Loc Ha district, Ha Tinh province.
By 2020, the Museum will be completed and put into operation, becoming the first private museum in Ha Tinh.
The Museum is currently displaying more than 4,000 artifacts and nearly 4,000 rare documents, materials, images, and manuscripts with 13 themes including agricultural tools, fishing tools, musical instruments, ancient porcelain, ancient coins, etc.
All artifacts and documents reflect the multi-faceted history, culture and life of Vietnamese people, throughout history, from the 11th century to the end of the 20th century.
Among the artifacts on display, the oldest are fossilized wood blocks, fossilized sea shells (Truong Sa) dating back hundreds of millions of years; stone axes dating back 4,000 years...
Traditional education
Sharing about the purpose of building the Hoa Cuong Museum, Mr. Nguyen Quang Cuong shared: “I believe that the Museum is a place to preserve the past, to preserve the soul of the past, the soul of the village, the soul of the nation, and also a way to revive the soul of the past, to revive traditional values. That place will educate love for the origin, tradition, through visual artifacts and intangible cultural activities”.
According to the Director of the Hoa Cuong Museum, after 4 years of operation, his museum has welcomed tens of thousands of visitors and researchers, most of whom are students.
Mr. Le Ngoc Chau - Vice Chairman of Ha Tinh Provincial People's Committee highly appreciated the enthusiasm and passion for collecting antiques to build the Hoa Cuong Museum with a large and diverse amount of artifacts of Mr. Nguyen Quang Cuong's family.
Mr. Le Ngoc Chau hopes that the museum owner will continue to maintain the passion, explore and collect more artifacts to attract more people and tourists to visit, study and research. Thereby, educating the love of homeland, country, love of national culture, love of ancestors' traditions in Ha Tinh people in particular and the whole country in general.
