The quantity as well as types of burial goods in Đông Sơn burials show their owners’ role and position in the society.
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.
Confering Diplomas could appear in fifteenth century, Le dynasty, confirmed by King’s seal, bearing state’s confirmation and showing court power to villages. Together with the other historical records, such as : royal proclamations, royal decrees, inscriptions, family annals…confering diploma is considered as one type of legal offical documents of feudal states.
“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.
Museums are place to keep and display collections of objects, antiques, and documents that reflect typical historical and cultural events of localities, ethnic groups, or countries in the world.
Thanh Hoa museum is keeping and promoting the value of Meo pagoda’s bell, Le dynasty. This bronze bell is originally from Meo pagoda (so called Chu pagoda), Chieng Ban village, Quang Hien commune, Lang Chanh district, Thanh Hoa province. Meo pagoda has real name as “Dinh Mieu Tu”
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 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.
Bảng Môn Temple (Bảng Môn Đình) located in the center of Hoằng Lộc Commune, Hoằng Hóa District, Thanh Hóa Province, which is 6km from the Thanh Hóa City to the northeast.
In order to carry out the project Collecting and conserving objects and adjusting exhibition content and design at the Thanh Hóa Museum phase 2010-2020 and the plan of object collecting in 2014 as well as to commemorate the 90th year since the discovery of Đông Sơn Culture, the Thanh Hóa Museum has collected eight bronze drums, five of which are of Heger I type, two of Heger II type, and one of Heger III type. They all were found in the area of Thanh Hóa Province.
Represented Objects