A painting exhibition, entitled 'Meet of March', will feature 50 paintings by 10 local artists in celebration of the 42^nd anniversary of Da Nang’s Liberation Day (29 March).

Smallest minority: Co Tu women make broacade in Quang Nam Province (VNS Photo Cong Thanh)

The event’s organising committee said the exhibition would officially open at the Da Nang Fine Arts Museum at 78 Le Duan on 28 March.

The exhibition will focus on scenes of Da Nang - its mountains, river, beaches and people - from past to present.

The Fine Arts Museum, the first of its kind in the central and Central Highlands region, has a permanent display of 413 works by artists from the city and elsewhere in the region.

Cultural preservation: A Co Tu man plays a khen (bamboo flute) in Quang Nam Province's Dong Giang Commune (VNS Photo Cong Thanh)

Also in celebration of Liberation Day, on 29 March the Museum of Da Nang will launch a display of the culture, costumes, wood sculptures, photos and lifestyle of the Co Tu ethnic group living in the central region.

Stilt houses: A 'guoi' (a traditional commune house of the Co Tu people), will be featured in an exhibition of Co Tu culture in Da Nang on 29 March (VNS Photo Cong Thanh)

Co Tu is Viet Nam’s smallest ethnic minority group with 70,000  people. They live in the Truong Son Mountain range in Da Nang, and provinces of Quang Nam and Thua Thien-Hue.

Contemporary life: A painting to be displayed at the Fine Arts Museum on 28 March (VNS Photo Cong Thanh)

The museum also preserves a collection of 11 ancient, cast-iron cannons (made during the Nguyen Dynasty between 1802-1860) that were unearthed at the Dien Hai Citadel from 1979 to 2008.

(Source: VNS/ DA NANG Today)