Active Preparations for the Exhibition “Hung Vuong Era Culture – Converging Essence”

With meticulous and dedicated preparation, the Hung Vuong Era Museum is striving to recreate a brilliant heritage space, promising to be a unique cultural highlight for compatriots and tourists during the 2026 Hùng Vương Memorial Day and Hùng Temple Festival.

Exhibition display work has been actively carried out by museum staff recently.

Located in the center of Viet Tri, the Hung Vuong Museum has long established itself as a cultural “red address,” connecting the historical flow from the past to the present. Featuring unique architecture that mimics traditional Northern stilt house roofs blended with Đông Sơn drum patterns across a 9,000 m2 floor area, the museum is not just an artistic work but a treasury of the sacred values of the Ancestral Land.

In the first quarter of 2026, the museum saw impressive results. It successfully organized the experiential series “Returning to Muong Land for an Ancient Tet” at its Hoa Binh facility and cultural activities at the Việt Trì facility, attracting thousands of visitors, especially students. Professional work has been implemented synchronously, from documenting hundreds of paper and ceramic artifacts to receiving over 12,000 excavated items from the Vanh Village Rock Shelter and Xom Trai Cave. Notably, the Vinh Phuc Temple of Literature, under the museum’s management, welcomed nearly 6,000 visitors, becoming a meaningful destination for traditional education.

For the upcoming festival, the museum is tasked with the thematic exhibition “Hung Vuong Era Culture – Converging Essence” along with heritage education programs. This is a key political and cultural mission to honor the Worship of Hung Kings and Phu Tho Xoan Singing — two Representative Intangible Cultural Heritages of Humanity.

Staff of the Hung Vuong Museum are inspecting artifacts in preparation for the upcoming Hung Vuong Memorial Day exhibition.

According to the plan, the exhibition space on the first floor will be constructed from April 7 to 12, 2026, to ensure it opens on the morning of April 13, 2026 (the 26th day of the second lunar month). The exhibition content is divided into two primary sections. The first focuses on “Hung Vuong Era Culture,” featuring sub-themes on Phú Thọ as the ancestral homeland of ancient Vietnamese people and Representative Intangible Cultural Heritages of Humanity. The second section, “Essence of Ancestral Land Antiquities,” introduces research on the Phùng Nguyên culture and showcases rare collections contributed by private collectors across the province.

To create a vibrant exhibition, the museum expects to display over 1,000 original artifacts alongside 60 documentary images. Moving beyond passive observation, students and tourists will participate in interactive activities such as making paper Hung King hats, watching 3D films about the Hung Vuong era, and performing Xoan singing live. This breakthrough approach aims to bring local history closer to the younger generation in a natural and inspiring manner.

Assessing the preparations, Mr. To Anh Tu — Director of the Hung Vuong Museum — stated that the unit is concentrating maximum resources and coordinating closely with functional agencies to ensure the highest professional quality and progress. Every step, from developing outlines and layouts to the transportation and preservation of artifacts, is being strictly implemented according to standard procedures.

This exhibition serves a profound educational mission: upholding the tradition of “When drinking water, remember its source” to express deep gratitude to the Hung Kings and ancestors for their merit in founding and defending the nation. By selecting the most typical images and artifacts from its archives, the Hung Vuong Museum aims to evoke national pride, strengthen the power of great unity, and raise community responsibility in preserving the heritage of the Ancestral Land.

Furthermore, the event serves to promote cultural heritages to a broad audience of domestic and international visitors. This creates a vivid, visual learning and experiential environment for students, contributing to the quality of local history education.

With meticulous, scientific, and aesthetic preparation, the exhibition “Hung Vuong Era Culture – Converging Essence” promises to leave an unforgettable impression on tourists returning to their ethnic roots during this year’s Hung Vuong Memorial Day.

Huong Lan