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Hue Fine Arts Museum welcomes nearly 60,000 visitors in 2023

TTH.VN - Ms. Dinh Thi Hoai Trai, Director of the Hue Fine Arts Museum, announced on January 19th that the museum received nearly 60,000 visitors in 2023. Visitors were mainly attracted to Le Ba Dang and Diem Phung Thi art exhibitions. According to Ms. Trai, this figure represents a 40% increase compared to that of the year 2022.

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 Tourists exploring Le Ba Dang Art Center, one of the three exhibitions of Hue Museum of Fine Arts.

Over the past year, the museum has acquired nearly 200 sketch works, adding to the museum's collection of documents and artifacts, and adding works to the collection titled “The beauty of heritage of Hue's ancient capital through Sketch Art”.

Additionally, the museum also received donations from Hue Monuments Conservation Center, including the artwork "Lễ Truyền lô" (lacquer on wood, 115x240cm) by the late artist Do Ky Hoang, and two graphic works, “Hòa âm bản nhạc Xuân” (“The harmony of Spring music”) and “Đại ngàn Tây nguyên trong mắt tôi” (“The Central highlands in my eyes”) by artist Tran Nguyen Dan.

The Hue Fine Arts Museum is currently storing and preserving 892 art pieces, including 407 works by painter Le Ba Dang, 396 sets of works by artist Diem Phung Thi, and 143 pieces by other artists (68 collected through state budget purchases).

By N. MINH
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