Since 2014, a combined total of 258 lively and attractive extracurricular activities have been organised at museums across Da Nang with the participation of 13,475 pupils from primary, junior, and senior high schools across the city.

During an extracurricular class at the Da Nang Fine Arts Museum, pupils were introduced to Dong Ho paintings

The intention of these activities is to help pupils improve their academic knowledge, and learn new skills that are useful in their school life and their activities of daily living.

Most recently, an extracurricular class entitled ‘Da Nang Fishermen’s Lives’ has been organised at the Museum of Da Nang for Tran Cao Van Primary School pupils in Thanh Khe District.

Duong Gia Han from the Tran Cao Van Primary School said that this was the first time she had taken part in a fascinating lesson at the museum.

She added that the lesson here was more attractive to her, and thanks to this she could understand more about the annual 'Cau Ngu' Fish Worshipping Festival, as well as some marine species on display at the museum.

Meanwhile, boasting characteristics of Cham culture, the Museum of Cham Sculpture has developed extracurricular programmes on various topics suitable for school pupils from different age groups.

In particular, extracurricular programmes themed ‘Mascots in Indian Mythology’ and ‘Gods in Hinduism’ have been held for primary school pupils, whilst those with the themes of ‘Cham relic sites in Da Nang and Quang Nam Province’, and ‘Three national treasures’ have been organised for junior and senior high school pupils.

Hoang Lan from the Ly Thuong Kiet Junior High School in Hai Chau District noted in addition to meaningful historical lessons about the Cham culture, she and her classmates had the opportunity to take part in some collective games to reinforce their knowledge such as questions, lucky numbers, and mysterious paintings games, plus a cartoon-related story telling contest.

Like a wise, the Da Nang Fine Arts Museum has attracted a great deal of attention from school pupils thanks to its fascinating extracurricular activities.

Through extracurricular activities there, pupils can understand more about exhibition space of the museum, as well as learn about how to make graphic paintings from such materials as food colours, water colours and coffee, and discover the traditional values ​​and beauty of Vietnamese folk paintings.

Extracurricular lessons at museums is co-organised by the municipal Department of Culture and Sports and the Department of Education and Training.

Mr Tran Van Chuan, Head of the Education-Communications Office of the Museum of Da Nang, remarked his museum is planning to expand this learning model to pupils in areas far from the city centre in a bid to diversify the museum’s activities in educating pupils about cultural heritages.