A set of 18 national treasures and hundreds of valuable antiques of Hai Phong City are on display for people to admire at the City Museum.
On May 11, Hai Phong Museum held an opening ceremony to display 18 national treasures and hundreds of antiques from the An Bien collection, notably a set of gold and silver artifacts in the sanctuary worshiping Female General Le Chan.
The exhibition will last until December 2024, introducing to the public 300 ancient artifacts in the An Bien collection dating from the Dong Son culture to the 19th century Dai Viet nation.
Among them, there are 18 national treasures of collector An Bien (collector Tran Dinh Thang).
In particular, the set of gold and silver artifacts in the Nghe Temple Sanctuary worshiping Female General Le Chan was kept, preserved and received by Hai Phong Museum since February 2024, and was first announced and put on display on the occasion of the 2024 Red Flamboyant Festival.
This is a set of artifacts of great value and significance to the people of Hai Phong as it is associated with the worship of Female General Le Chan, who laid the foundation for the formation of today's Hai Phong City and is revered by the people as the Holy Mother and the City's tutelary deity.
Specifically, the city has 553 ranked relics, including 118 national relics, 433 city-level relics, two special national relics, 12 national intangible cultural heritages and 21 national treasures.
The above heritages are cultural and artistic marks that demonstrate the thinking, aesthetics, creativity and skillful hands of our ancestors through each dynasty and period in the past.
Ms. Mai said that this exhibition is an important event, contributing to awakening and promoting the potentials and valuable heritages hidden in the land at the estuary to introduce to friends at home and abroad.
At the same time, affirming the role and position of the city in implementing the orientation of developing Hai Phong into a major tourist center of the country with a focus on developing tourism infrastructure, forming typical tourism products of the city associated with the sea, islands and historical and cultural relics.