Da Nang exhibitions provides visitors with overview of Champa culture

Three exhibitions providingvisitors with an overview of Champa culture, which emerged in the late2nd century AD, opened in Da Nang city on July 25.

Themed ‘Inscriptions and Scripts of Cham’, the first exhibitiondisplays documents featuring Cham writings on paper and ‘buong’ leaves, aunique material for making the paper of the Cham people as well asinscriptions on stone steles. The content of the inscriptions variedfrom praising the gods to extending peoples’ wishes to the gods.

Works on display at the second exhibition included artefacts unearthedfrom archaeological excavations in Qua Giang, Phong Le and Cam Mit sitesin Da Nang city, which were made of various materials includingceramic, crystal, ivory and gold. Many of the exhibits were made publicfor the first time.

Meanwhile, collector Lam Du Xenh from Quang Ngai province brought tothe museum his private collection of artefacts on Sa Huynh-Champaculture, including glass jewellery, burial jars and ceramic objects.

The three exhibitions are taking place at the Da Nang Museum of ChamSculpture as part of activities to mark the museum’s 100th anniversary.

The same day, a seminar on ‘Archaeology on Champa after the year 1975and the preservation and exhibition of Champa’ opened at the museum,attracting many scholars, archaeologists and cultural researchers.

Most of the participants agreed that archaeological achievements on theChampa after 1975 have provided a precise means to define the Champahistory and culture, contributing to its position as a major and uniqueculture that played an important role throughout the history and cultureof Vietnam’s central region.

They also suggested opinions to the museum’s management board onmethods to manage, preserve, exhibit and introduce Cham artefacts to thepublic.

Nhan Dan

Da Nang exhibitions provides visitors with overview of Champa culture

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