The Thanh Hóa Provincial Museum is currently storing and exhibiting over 30,000 artifacts, including three National Treasures.
The Đông Sơn archaeological site locates on the banks of the Mã River. It was the first vestige of the Đông Sơn Culture to be discovered and studied in 1924. Until now, many archaeological excavations that were carried out have provided valuable scientific information about this site. These archaeological documents reveal the continuity of cultural development during the first millennium BC through the first century AD.
Dog, one of the wild animals, was early domesticated by humans. With their intelligent and loyal instinct, dogs have always been valued and become the human’s friend.
“Van Co Cuong Thuong” (eternalness constant obligations of morality) hengfei in “Hoa Thuong Hoi Quan” (Chinese traders club-house) (now, Thanh Hoa Publishing House, No 248, Tran Phu street, Ba Dinh district, Thanh Hoa city) is one of the biggest and the most intact hengfei being kept in the Thanh Hoa museum.
Dong Khoi site locates in Dong Cuong commune, Thanh Hoa city. This is a stone tools-making workshop, dated Early Bronze Age. It was discovered in 1960s, twentieth century. To now, it has been surveyed three times (1960, 1975, 1976) and excavated two times.
In July 2014, Thanh Hoa museum did collect more than 30 unique, valuable and rare artifacts in which three ceramics (including two lamp-stands and one incense burner) date back to Le So period, fifteenth-sixteenth centuries.
In November 2013, the Novosibirsk Institute of Archaeology – Ethnology, Russian Academy of Science, and the Vietnam Institute of Archaeology carried out the excavation in Diêm Cave in Sánh Village, Thành Yên Commune, Thạch Thành District, Thanh Hóa Province.
Through a system of documents and typical objects, the exhibitions at the Thanh Hóa Provincial Museum introduces the country’s historical process in a condensed but lively and remarkable way, which helps visitors to understand about the history directly, specifically, and effectively.
In 2001, running the project “Collecting, conserving, correcting and editing the form and content of the exhibition in Thanh Hoa museum, 2010-2020 phase”, the museum did collect a lot of unique, valuable and rare artifacts, adding up to the exhibition and store, with different materials and types, such as, bronze drums, basket-shaped bronze containers, production tools, stone ornaments… This paper is about the big peach-shaped ink stone being kept in stone sub-store.
Mrs. Hà Thị Nú is a Thái person in Chiềng Kẽm, Yên Khương Commune, Lang Chánh District, Thanh Hóa Province. During the resistance war against French colonialism, she joined the local guerilla militia. At that time, she enthusiastically did production while some people were cheated and thus followed banditry in the Việt Nam-Laos border.
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