Visit the museum online

Can you visit a museum while sitting at home? This sounds completely absurd but it is true. With the application of the most vivid virtual reality technology today, Ninh Binh Museum helps visitors and people visit the exhibition halls as well as learn about historical artifacts at the Museum through the application of digital technology in heritage management and protection activities.

Joining a group of tourists from Kim Son district to visit Ninh Binh Museum, for the first time we learned about historical artifacts in a different way. Following the mouse clicks of the Ninh Binh Museum staff, sitting in the office, we were able to tour around the artifact exhibition rooms here. Following the arrows on the screen, virtual reality technology took us from the reception room to the 2nd floor, where the sovereignty stones of the Truong Sa archipelago are displayed; Ninh Binh in the resistance war against the US; Ninh Binh in the resistance war against the French, then to the 3rd floor, where the natural conditions and nature of Ninh Binh province and the Hoa Lu capital in the 10th century are displayed.

At each exhibition area, with each click, viewers can stop at any artifact to look closely, learn more about that artifact, and then continue moving to other areas. Accompanying the "tour" is the voice of the Museum's tour guide, which has been recorded and installed...

Mr. Tran Van Kinh (Phat Diem town, Kim Son) shared: Knowing about the application of modern digital technology like this, I will go home and tell my friends and children so that they can find any information they need to find out by clicking the mouse while sitting at home...

Talking with comrade Le Thi Minh Trang, Propaganda Exhibition Department, Ninh Binh Museum, it is known that: The website of Ninh Binh Museum was deployed to build from 2022 according to the province's digital transformation program, since then, the number of visits has increased, attracting many followers. For the website to operate effectively, the staff of the Museum actively search for information, update images of activities so that readers can feel the innovation of the Museum. At the same time, there is coordination with departments and divisions to provide the most accurate information about artifacts. Museum staff also have connections and research on content between other sectors to provide the most current information.

Not only can you find the Museum's activities on the website, when accessing the VRTOUR360 feature, you will experience and update the most vivid virtual reality technology today to learn more about the artifacts, especially those using 3D technology.

Stay home and visit the museum — The interface of the VRTOUR360 feature will "lead" visitors to visit the Museum.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Khang, Director of Ninh Binh Museum added: In recent years, digital transformation activities at Ninh Binh Museum have been effectively implemented, contributing to the management and promotion of the value of artifacts preserved at the Museum as well as serving the visiting needs of people and tourists in a modern and convenient way.

To promote the value of heritage, through the Museum's Website, visitors can visit the Museum through the VRTOUR360 feature using a computer or phone. Accessing this feature, to learn about the information, images, and artifacts of the Museum, visitors can easily refer to and research through images that are vividly and attractively presented with full information.

In addition, digital transformation also helps preserve, manage, arrange, and display documents and artifacts scientifically, helping to reduce time and effort in searching. Through digital transformation, collected documents and artifacts have been digitized, effectively serving local and central researchers and researchers in quickly and scientifically finding information and images of documents and artifacts.

From a management perspective, digital transformation helps museum staff effectively carry out 6 stages of work: research, collection, inventory, preservation, display and promote the value of heritage in a scientific, timely and fast manner. In addition, preserving the original values of artifacts is done scientifically, helping to know what documents and artifacts were like at the time of collection.

In particular, digital transformation also has a great impact on the enjoyment of the community when visitors visit the Museum directly, without using the direct explanation system, just scan the QR code attached to the artifacts to learn more about the artifacts. If you do not have the conditions to visit directly, visitors can learn through the VRTOUR360 feature on the Ninh Binh Museum's website.

In 2023, the Museum welcomed and guided 19,703 visitors and students, including 234 international visitors. Many visitors to the Museum have effectively applied digital technology to visit and explore through QR codes attached to areas and artifacts, or using screens at exhibition booths...

To better serve the needs of sightseeing and learning of local people and tourists, in the coming time, Ninh Binh Museum will invest human resources and intelligence to consolidate and further develop the electronic information page, add more images and documents of newly collected artifacts, enrich the digitized artifacts, regularly update the activities of the Museum... to increase the attractiveness for visitors and contribute to the work of preserving and promoting the value of heritages.

Article and photos: Bui Dieu

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