Workshop “Museum and activities of education, experience and connection between travel and school”

On 21st October 2016, at the Museum of the cultures of vietnam’s  ethnic groups took place the workshop “Museum and activities of education, experience and connection between travel and school”.

Attending and chairing the workshop, there were . Dr. Dang Thi Bich Lien – Vice Minister of Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and scientists and managers: Prof. Dr. Luu Tran Tieu – President of National Cultural Heritage Council, Prof. Dr. Dang Van Bai – Vice President of National Cultural Heritage Council, Prof. Dr. Pham Mai Hung – Vice President of Vietnam Association for Science and History, M.A Pham Dinh Phong – Deputy Director of  Department of Cultural Heritage, M.A Nguyen Quy Phuong – Director of Travel Department, General Department of Tourism, representatives of 11 museums under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the museums of Quang Ninh, Son La, Thai Nguyen, War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh Museum of Ao dai, Military Museum, Police Museum …, tourist travel agencies, universities; national researchers; representatives from departments and some schools in the province …

To express at the seminar, Dang Thi Bich Lien, Deputy Minister of Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, highly appreciated the innovations and innovations of the museums in recent years. Praise for demonstration activities, experience visitors at the Museum of Culture of Vietnam’s ethnic groups.

Concurrently, the Vice Minister also frankly acknowledged and evaluated the remaining aspects, limited to provide solutions to overcome the next time. In addition to the achievements, the conservation work, museums also have some limitations to find effective solutions to overcome, especially the organization of educational activities, experience and connection. travel- School is the direction of interest of most museums in Vietnam.

In recent years, some museums have researched themes applied in organizing educational activities, experiences for visitors, especially students in primary, secondary and high school. Although the organization of educational activities, experience has been done in many museums, but each museum has its own direction, various forms of organization diversity, but not really go in the afternoon.  He stressed the renewal of activities to serve visitors, enjoy cultural values at the museum. Visitors not only listen to the narrator but also interact, experience museum artifacts, live in the space of that historic moment. Consequently, museum activities should reflect true histories, be associated with the lives of people, and be educational, entertaining and knowledge-intensive. To do this, besides the efforts of each museum requires the connection of the whole community, especially social tourism companies, travel schools …

With over 40 presentations, the participants focused on evaluating and analyzing the possibilities and realities of experiential education; Meeting the needs of visitors of the museum in the country, international; Package experience assessment at the Museum of Ethnic Culture of Vietnam; Share experiences of connecting travelers, experiences from international museums and earlier generations …

According to Bui Minh Tam – Director of DVDL Minh Tam company: 25% of students in Minh Tam’s tour visited the Museum, which confirmed that the Museum has been and is the brand. The staff of the Museum is friendly and enthusiastic. However, it still does not promote the strength of capital. The museum only serves as a place to store cultural objects that have not exploited the needs of visitors; Tourism services are not developed, limited promotion. Capt. Nguyen Ba Thanh – Military Politics College: “With 40 Military Corps of Officers, military schools have visited the Museum of Civic Culture. Vietnamese clan. ” According to him, the team of tour guides, narrator can integrate propaganda about patriotic tradition through questions, Organizing visits, introducing them further in the regional or regional space of culture; The tour process can be divided into groups so that all participants can participate in the experience. The museum has re-equipped some poorly equipped speakers, microphones and props to experience better results.

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The workshop “Museums with educational activities, experiences and travel links – schools” converged, linked many elements of society and listened to multi-dimensional opinions, with 28 comments for Service of the Museum. Delegates visited the exhibition of the Museum of Vietnamese Folk Culture, enjoying some traditional culture of the community. Ethnic groups in different regions. Through the operation, many comments have been received from delegates, scientists, especially travel and travel agencies and schools that have repeatedly brought tourists, students Come to the Museum of Vietnamese Folk Culture, expand cultural re-enactment activities – use the actual people at the Museum. The delegates commented, when receiving large delegations of visitors, organize the welcome, arranging the experience activities in the most professional way. For the students, each class has its own characteristics, so it is possible to build scripts that are appropriate for their age so that they can gain cultural value after the tour. For students in remote areas to visit, they must be able to welcome all the children, the resting place …

The promotion of the museum in general, the promotion of experiential education activities for students in particular should be invested, printed information, promoted to schools and travel companies. Travel services such as Thai Nguyen tea shop, costume shop, photo shop – souvenir shop should be invested to bring identity, attractive tourists … The opinions have frankly pointed out the advantages, The advantages to be promoted and the limited perspectives that need to be overcome in public policy as well as the guidance, education, experience – travel links – schools, visitor service of the Museum, Moving on to branding is a memorable destination in the hearts of domestic and international visitors.

Participants discussed the proposed solutions for organizing the museum’s service activities and development orientations for 2016-2020, with interactive educational review and experiential learning assessment plans in Vietnam. Nam, from which to develop into educational projects, camps have specific objectives, scenarios and assessments. Special visitors to high school students and students from inside and outside the province will have interesting and useful experiences in contemporary life from traditional cultural values.

On this occasion, delegates visited the Thai Hai Eco-tourism Area, a typical travel connection point in Thai Nguyen.