Bringing museums closer to students

*Students visit and experience at the Sa Huynh - Champa Culture Museum. Photo: VINH LOC*

Diversified heritage education activities

The Sa Huynh - Champa Culture Museum (Duy Xuyen Commune) has just welcomed 40 students from a local primary school to visit and experience. This is the first activity for the program to bring students to the museum in the 2025 - 2026 school year.

For about 2 hours, the students were introduced to historical and cultural artifacts of the Sa Huynh people and the ancient Champa kingdom as well as traditional household and production items that Vietnamese people used several decades ago.

At the end of the tour, children can participate in on-site recreational activities such as painting artifacts; clay modeling, sculpture, pottery making; embroidering artifacts on bags; printing pictures of gods on Do paper and playing traditional folk games such as O an Quan, flipping photos...

First launched in 2004, the program "Heritage Education in Schools" organized by the My Son World Cultural Heritage Management Board in coordination with the local education sector has attracted tens of thousands of students from many schools in the city.

In the 2024 - 2025 school year alone, more than 5,100 students from 49 primary, secondary and high schools and nearly 2,000 students from universities: Tourism , Culture, Architecture, Fine Arts... across the country participated in the program.

*Students experience weaving Cham brocade at My Son. Photo: VINH LOC*

Similarly, at Da Nang Museum, Campus 2 (Ban Thach Ward), every year thousands of students come to learn and experience. With more than 30 thousand valuable cultural and historical artifacts from prehistoric to modern times, the museum has become an attractive address to help students understand more about the depth of Quang land.

In 2024, Danang Museum, Campus 2, welcomed more than 8,000 visitors, mostly students and teachers. In nearly 10 months of 2025 alone, about 6,100 students (483 students) came to visit and learn about the museum.

Mr. Tran Van Duc, Deputy Director of Da Nang Museum, said that through sightseeing and experiential activities with specific topics such as "Back to the memory land", "I learn to be an archaeologist", "Painting Tuong masks and making traditional banh beo" ..., the unit has contributed to bringing the museum closer to students. In recent times, the unit has also researched and developed many lectures, coordinated with a number of secondary schools in the area to organize direct learning at the museum, helping to effectively spread the values of cultural heritage to the young generation.

Improve the quality of operations

Museums are not only places to preserve and display artifacts, documents, images, etc., but also spaces for experiencing memories of a bygone era. Improving the quality of museums through attractive and scientific tours has become an urgent requirement to attract visitors, especially young people and students.

Mr. Nguyen Van Tho, Head of Museum Conservation Department, My Son World Cultural Heritage Management Board, informed that in order to increase the attraction of the museum in a more creative way, the unit has improved and developed experiential activities for students, thereby not only helping students understand more about Champa culture but also know the history of Vietnamese culture, in which organizing students to print pictures of Cham gods using Dong Ho printing technique is a typical activity.

In addition, the unit is also researching and building experiential services according to the requests of tourism businesses to generate revenue. It is expected that next month, the My Son World Cultural Heritage Management Board will welcome 3 groups of students (each group of 40 students) brought by a travel company to experience the Cham - Sa Huynh Museum and the My Son temple complex...

At the Da Nang Museum of Cham Sculpture, with the motto "Learn while playing, play while learning", focusing on developing soft skills for students, the unit has organized many connections between the museum and schools, gradually bringing Champa cultural heritage closer to the young generation. Since 2018, the museum has coordinated with local schools to organize the heritage education program "Discover with me" for primary and secondary school students. Accordingly, students can visit and explore the museum according to different topics depending on each grade.

*Heritage education programs at the museum have helped children understand and love local history and culture more. Photo: VINH LOC*

Specifically, grade 1 and 2 students experience the topic "Mythical animals in Cham sculpture"; grade 3, 4 and 5 students experience the topic "Gods in Hinduism". In addition, primary school students also watch cartoons about mythological stories related to museum artifacts and practice storytelling.

For secondary school students, the museum organizes experiences with two themes: "National treasures at the Da Nang Museum of Cham Sculpture" and "Cham relics in Da Nang and Quang Nam".

Students also participated in quiz games such as “Lucky Number Box”, “Mysterious Picture”, “Who is Right - Who is Wrong”, “Finishing Team”, “Overcoming Obstacles”…; participated in experiential activities such as painting, printing woodcuts simulating artifacts at the museum, helping them practice their dexterity, teamwork and group work skills…

Notably, the museum also built a separate heritage education program on “Learning about Champa religious art” for students majoring in history, culture, architecture, tourism and tour guides, creating conditions for students majoring in this field to access basic and in-depth knowledge about Champa religious art through the collection of artifacts here, helping students accumulate practical experience, serving their future careers.

Previously, since 2022, the Museum has also implemented a heritage education program through online forms on the Zoom Meetings platform. The lessons are also integrated with vivid virtual tour applications so that students can experience the exhibition space at the Museum and My Son relics most vividly and effectively.

Source: https://baodanang.vn/dua-bao-tang-den-gan-hoc-sinh-hon-3308083.html