Two HCM City museums have set up audio guides on Vietnamese culture and heritage. – Photo plo.vn

HCM CITY – Audio guides have been installed at two museums in HCM City to help visitors learn about Vietnamese culture and history.

Now at the HCM City Museum and the South-Vietnamese Women Museum, they would also be taken to other museums.

Visitors can listen to a three-minute podcast about an artefact or heritage by tapping the related icon.

They have four stories each about the Lương tài hầu bronze seal (used by officials during the feudatory period) at the HCM City Museum, the Champa Ganesha statue at the HCM City History Museum, the áo dài at the South-Vietnamese Women Museum, and the HCM City Fine Arts Museum building.

They were designed by city museums, the Confluences and Lyon museums in France and the French embassy in Việt Nam for the FSPI - Sharing and Preserving Vietnamese Heritages programme being run by the embassy and the city's Department of Culture and Sports.

Đoàn Thị Trang, deputy director of the HCM City Museum, said more historical documents and artetacts  would be added in future.

“This model is a great medium to attract visitors and an effective educational tool,” Hélène Lafont-Couturier,general director of the Confluences and Lyon museums, said.

Việt Nam is the first country to have applied this model.

The FSPI (The Solidarity Fund for Innovative Projects) supports reform projects, social activities, French-speaking communities, and human development activities around the world. – VNS