On Wednesday, the Hoang Sa Islands People’s Committee organised a seminar to collect opinions from local experts and researchers about plans for the design and display of exhibits at the Hoang Sa Exhibition House.

The beach-front project will cover an area of 1,200m² at the corner of Hoang Sa and Phan Ba Phien streets in Son Tra District’s Man Thai Ward, and it will cost about 40 billion VND from the city’s budget.  An architectural design themed ‘Viet Nam’s Sovereign Seal’ has been chosen as the design for the exhibition house.  It was created by a group of architects from Japan’s Wright Architecture Company.

The architect’s model of the exhibition house

At the seminar, representatives from a company involved in fine arts designs and construction investment in Ha Noi presented their preliminary plans for the display of exhibits in the 3-storey house.  In particular, the display will feature both static and dynamic images with the help of multimedia devices.

The first floor will feature a reception area, an information desk and a replica of the sovereignty stele of the Hoang Sa archipelago from the French colonial period. Exhibits on this floor will help visitors gain an insight into the geographical position and natural conditions of the archipelago, and of Da Nang as a whole.

The second floor will house old Vietnamese bibliographies issued under the feudal Nguyen Dynasty, and old maps and historical documents published by China and some Western countries, all of which confirm that the archipelago is an integral part of Viet Nam’s territory. 

On display on the third floor will be administrative documents which prove Viet Nam’s legitimate sovereignty over the islands during the 1945 - 1975 period, and until now.

At the seminar, the experts highly applauded the plans for the exhibition displays.  They also stressed the need to seek the best solutions for effectively preserving the exhibits because the majority of them are made of paper.

Some experts proposed that a document storage area and rooms for reading and researching into the displayed documents should be established in the house, and they must be located close to each other.

It was also suggested that a contest should be launched in the city to write verses and prose about the beloved Hoang Sa archipelago, with the most outstanding entries being displayed at the exhibition house after the contest.