Using the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum in Teaching History at High Schools

Abstract

Museum is not only a place to collect history evidences of a nation, but it is also considered as a useful learning environment for students. The objects, pictures… exhibited in museum are vivid evidences for students to study, explore history. Each museum has a different exhibition and its own advantages in teaching and learning history. The Vietnam Fine Arts Museum is a museum to display, introduce typical fine arts, paintings of our nation. Basing on the analysis of the roles of The Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, a survey of using it in teaching history at high schools, this writing proposes some ideas for using this museum in teaching Vietnamese History from its origins to the mid-nineteenth century and the initial results of pedagogical experiment at Trung Gia High School (Soc Son, Ha Noi).