Viet Nam Press Museum has held a ceremony to receive valuable objects to enrich its media archive and make a significant contribution to its vitality and diversification.
The Viet Nam Pictorial donated a mobile move projector used for film screening for journalists in the struggle against the US. The Military Arts and Literature Magazine presented a German-made M16 typewriter used in 1970s and 1980s at its headquarter. The Press Faculty under the Academy of Journalism and Communication handed 39 books of teachers, researchers and journalists. Ha Giang provincial Journalists’ Association gave six documents and objects, including its original newspapers published in 1964 and 1984.
On this occasion, the museum also received the binoculars of the late journalist Xuan Thuy; The shirt worn by Ton Trung Son at the second Viet Nam Journalists’ Association in 1959 together with several autographs, manuscripts and letters.
The family of journalists Nguyen Thanh Le has donated the museum of precious objects associated with his career. They are almost the bookcase he left with over 400 books and several notebooks chronicling his period.
Former journalist of the People's Army Newspaper Nguyen Tran Thiet donated many documents and objects to the museum, including medals for the cause of the Vietnamese press.
VNA reporter and photographer Chu Chi Thanh, former President of Viet Nam Photography Association, handed the museum a photo collection, including the famous photos "Two soldiers" taken in Quang Tri in 1973.
Following are several donated objects:
