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Ha
Noi (VNA) - Viet Nam's water puppet and Dong Son
drum, which belongs to the Bronze Age, about 1,500 years B.C.,
will be introduced at the Vienna Museum of Ethnology in Austria
right after the completion of the upgrade of the museum in 2007.
Dr.
Christian Schicklgruber, who is in charge of the museum's South
and Southeast Asia and Hymalaya collections, told Lao Dong
(Labour) newspaper that to prepare for the exhibition, he plans to
film puppet shows in theatres as well as outdoor village
performances during his current visit to Viet Nam.
The
Austrian cultural activist was recently presented with
Viet Nam
's Medal "For the Cause of
Culture and Information" in recognition of his contributions
in promoting the Vietnamese culture.
Schicklgruber
was one of the two organizers of the exhibitions entitled "
Viet Nam
's prehistoric and contemporary
arts and culture" in
Belgium
and "
Viet Nam
's impression: gods, heroes and
ancestors" in
Austria
.
The
two exhibitions, which lasted from September 2003 to October 2004,
helped introduce for the first time a large number of Vietnamese
artefacts to European viewers.
Schicklgruber
was in charge of supervising the hand-over of more than 350
artefacts that the Vienna Museum of Ethnology and the Belgian
Royal Museum of Arts and History borrowed from 13 Vietnamese
museums. It was also the first time the Vietnamese Government
permitted foreign museums to bring rare artefacts out of the
country.-Enditem
