Chairman of the People's Committee of Da Nang City Huynh Duc Tho has just signed a document on the investment policy, capital sources and the ability to balance capital for the project of renovating and upgrading the facility at 42 Bach Dang to build the Da Nang Museum and presented it to the City People's Council at the meeting in early December.
The ancient building at 42 Bach Dang will be the main exhibition space of the Museum.
The current Da Nang Museum was built in 2005, opened in 2011 and is still attracting a large number of tourists and locals, according to city leaders. However, the Museum is located in the core area of the special national historical site of Dien Hai Citadel - Vietnam's first anti-French citadel more than 160 years ago, ranked in March 2018.
Accordingly, the People's Committee of Da Nang City assigned the Department of Culture and Sports to be the investor of the project to upgrade and renovate the building at 42 Bach Dang to convert its function into a museum, in order to liberate and restore the core area of the Dien Hai Citadel relic.
The upgrade of 42 Bach Dang building is expected to be carried out on a total area of more than 8,600 m2,including three blocks of buildings: the existing People's Council headquarters, building 44 Bach Dang and 31 Tran Phu.
It is known that the city wants to spend 507 billion VND on this project, implemented in two phases from 2019 to 2022. In particular, the 3-storey ancient building at the front of No. 42 (built in 1898) will be kept intact to convert into an exhibition space and renovate the landscape.
House No. 44 also retains its architecture to serve as a management office area, adding some service spaces facing the Han River. House No. 31 Tran Phu has its floors converted into interactive spaces, supporting the Museum.
Later construction items, such as a 2-storey horizontal block of the project at 42 Bach Dang, the auxiliary wing of the City People's Council, the parking lot, the fence, the gate, etc., which are not suitable for the museum landscape will be dismantled.
Bach Dang is a street located in the center of Da Nang city.
Before this planning was proposed, the city held a competition for architectural designs to select ideas. Once completed, the Museum will be connected to the General Library, Dien Hai Citadel Square and the central administrative area.
