In recent years, Quang Ninh Museum has become a favorite destination for young people. They boasted to each other about the beautiful and strange “virtual living corners” that could not be exploited. Located right on the shores of Ha Long Bay, a World Natural Heritage Site, Quang Ninh Museum is probably the most beautifully located museum in Vietnam. Inspired by the image of coal – a typical mineral of the mining land, Quang Ninh Museum was designed in striking black by Spanish architect Salvador Perez Arroyo. The shell is like a giant mirror reflecting Ha Long Bay, creating a unique beauty. In 2014, the Quang Ninh Provincial Library-Museum cluster won the “Project of the Year” award by the Vietnam Urban Development Planning Association. Quang Ninh Museum is not only that, this place is truly a miniature Quang Ninh, helping visitors discover the richness of life, cultural and aesthetic imprints, and the richness of resources of the mining land. The collection of 8 national treasures with the Ngoa Van-Yen Tu gold box, the full moon ceramic vase dating back more than 3,000 years… are part of it. According to experts’ assessment, the museum’s display system is quite unique, ensuring the advanced, updating the leading advances in the world’s display methods; The spaces are displayed vividly, the furniture is displayed as well as the scientific arrangement of artifacts, avoiding boredom for visitors. Students of Yen Tho Secondary School (Dong Trieu) visit and experience the Quang Ninh Library-Museum cluster. Photo: PHAM TANG Taking care of every little corner, the museum is highly appreciated by domestic and foreign tourists. Ms. Nguyen Yen Nga (visitor from Hanoi) is not only interested in the artifacts in the museum, stylish photography angles but also in the coffee shop here. Visitor Shannon (Australia) on the famous travel site Tripadvisor commented: “This museum is epic. Three floors with a huge amount of information help you fully visualize all the information about Vietnam you want to learn.” Ms. Trinh Thi Thu Thuy, a person with a disability at the Project on Promoting Accessible Tourism for People with Disabilities in Vietnam, who used to work for a travel company, noticed the stairs designed specifically for people with disabilities. disabilities. Ms. Thuy shared: “We are the ones who directly study accessible tourism in the localities, sometimes quite disappointed because of the fact that we surveyed dozens of destinations in different places but couldn’t find the next one. But Quang Ninh Museum is one of the destinations designed to serve people with disabilities.” Build into an attractive tourism product It is not difficult to understand that Quang Ninh Museum has many interesting exhibits related to coal. Just outside the museum is the glossy black block of a block of coal, symbolizing the land of the mines. The outdoor display area of ​​the museum has the largest monolithic coal in Vietnam, the statue of a mining worker. The exhibition area in the museum is the story of the entire history of Quang Ninh coal mining industry from the Nguyen and French colonial times to the present day. One of the interesting experiences when coming to Quang Ninh Museum is playing the role of “miner in shift”. In this experience, visitors can put on a miner’s outfit, step into the pit built in a 1-to-1 scale with full equipment, enjoy the specialty of mine bread… Em Nguyen Khanh Linh (Quang Ninh) said: “When I first entered this coal tunnel area, I was afraid because it was dark. But I think this is quite an interesting experience, giving me a more accurate view of the difficulties in the work of miners. I think it’s a hard but glorious job.” Experiencing miners in shifts is just one of the experiential activities that always attract a large number of people, children, tourists… of Quang Ninh Museum. The museum has implemented experiential and creative activities in the exhibition space itself with useful and interesting playgrounds for children as well as visitors, such as: “Learning the history of Quang Ninh through artifacts museum”, “Full Moon Festival-Experience with children”, “Baby is a child artist”, “Team building”… Quang Ninh Provincial People’s Committee has recognized Quang Ninh Museum as a tourism product located in the central tourist route of Ha Long City and one of 12 tourist attractions in Ha Long City. Mr. Kieu Dinh Son, Director of Quang Ninh Museum said: “The museum associated with tourism and serving tourism is an important task and method to realize socialization and promote the social effects of tourism. effective museum today. Since its opening, the number of visitors to the museum has increased. Therefore, along with promoting advantages and overcoming difficulties, the unit will strengthen cooperation with travel agencies, build programs in tours, widely promote the image, present objects of the museum to contribute to attracting a large number of domestic and international tourists. In 2019, we received about 400,000 visitors. Total revenue from ticket sales reached more than 10.35 billion VND. Quang Ninh Museum is the only provincial general museum in the country and is one of three museums in the country with 100% autonomy in recurrent expenditure.

Visitors to Tuan Chau international cruise ship port, Ha Long city enjoy many incentives. The family does not have to buy tickets to visit locations on Ha Long Bay, but only costs train tickets for 150,000 VND / person (grouping). According to the Yen Tu National Forest and Monuments Management Board, admission tickets are free of charge. The number of visitors in recent days has gradually recovered. Some tour companies bring tourists to spiritual tourism, to worship Buddha. Talking with VietNamNet, Director of Quang Ninh Tourism Department Pham Ngoc Thuy said that although the number of visitors showed signs of prosperity, it was not as expected. “Most tourists flock to the hot and sunny southern regions to bathe in the sea like Nha Trang and Da Nang. Quang Ninh has not been able to swim because the weather is still cold, it rains a lot”, Mr. Thuy said. Recently, Quang Ninh province has decided to reduce 100% of the entrance fee for tourists in Ha Long Bay, Quang Ninh Museum and Yen Tu scenic spot. This promotion applies on major holidays from now to early May, including: Hung Vuong’s death anniversary (April 21), the liberation day of the mines April 25, and especially the holidays April 30 – 1 / 5. In addition to a 100% discount on toll tickets at 3 popular tourist destinations on major holidays, Quang Ninh will reduce the above fare by 50% for the rest of the year. Some photos of tourists in Quang Ninh today: A group of young tourists visit Quang Ninh Museum From early morning, many people came to Tuan Chau island campus to have fun Tuan Chau port terminal Tourists go with the family Some bring food to keep costs down Visitors are free to visit Ha Long Bay, only have to buy train tickets The number of passengers is not large, so only a few ships leave Most visitors go in the group type Kayaking still attracts visitors

Accordingly, by 2020, with innovation, creativity and flexibility in stimulating demand and promoting tourism, the Quang Ninh tourism industry has overcome difficulties due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic in a spectacular way. speeding up in the last 3 months of the year, reaching a successful milestone with the total number of tourists coming to Quang Ninh by 2020 to reach 8.8 million; Total revenue from tourism is estimated at over 17,000 billion; The added value from tourist revenues in the province reaches over 11,000 billion; Contributed 5.19% to the local budget revenue. Successfully inheriting in 2020 with a breakthrough in the work of stimulating demand, promoting and promoting tourism, Quang Ninh province is determined to strive to attract tourists to the province by 2021 to reach 10 million visitors. In order to achieve the dual goal of effectively fighting the epidemic while developing socio-economic development, maintaining a safe area, maintaining economic growth momentum right from the end of 2020, the People’s Council of Quang Ninh province has issued a Decision No. 316 / NQ-HDND dated December 9, 2020 on a number of measures to support tourism demand stimulus in Quang Ninh province in 2021. Quang Ninh province has many solutions to stimulate tourism demand 2021. According to the resolution, Quang Ninh province offers a 100% discount on entrance fees for tourist attractions and accommodations in Ha Long Bay, Quang Ninh Museum, and Yen Tu scenic relic on major holidays in 2021 for tourists. calendar (Hung Vuong’s death anniversary April 21; Mining Zone Liberation Day April 25 … from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021; bus ticket support from Van International Airport Don – Ha Long to Doc Do (Phuong Dong ward, Uong Bi city) and vice versa. In the plan to stimulate demand, promote tourism promotion of Quang Ninh Provincial People’s Committee in 2021, the province will organize 88 events, activities, and tourism stimulus programs; including 35 activities, events at provincial scale, 53 activities, events at local level. Specifically: Phase I: March, April and May 2021 will organize 31 events, activities, and stimulus programs for Quang Ninh tourism, including 15 activities, provincial events, 16 activities, events local level tissue. The highlight of phase I stimulus activities chain is the activities of Ha Long Cultural Tourism Week 2021 with special and attractive events such as: Ha Long – Quang Ninh program to welcome summer 202; The Three Circus Gala 2021; Concert EDM in Everland; The 202 National Youth Band Festival; Volleyball National Championship Round I … Phase II: From June to December 2021 will organize 57 events, activities and programs to stimulate tourism in Quang Ninh, including 20 activities, provincial events, 37 activities, events. local level tissue. The highlight of the phase II of the bridge stimulus activities is the 2021 National Sea Kite Festival; Program “Yen Tu – Back to the land of Buddha in autumn 2021”; 2021 Winter Carnaval Program … Quang Ninh tourism stimulus alliance together with tourism businesses in the province have launched product groups focusing on spiritual tourism, cuisine, islands, culture, entertainment – vacation. attractive concessional packages and packages, and simultaneously 30-50% discount on tourism service prices in the province. Typically: Ha Long Sun Company Limited offers a 70% discount on the ticket price of SunWorld Ha Long Complex Park from March 13 to April 15, 202. Tung Lam Development Joint Stock Company reduced the price of the round trip cable car ticket to Dong Pagoda, Yen Tu by 30%, until December 31, 2021; Hai u Aviation Joint Stock Company offers a 40% discount on the flight experience program Hai u Seaplane – Happy golden hour at 9:00 and 16h10 from Monday to Friday from March 22, 2021 to April 29. / 2021. Quang Ninh province is expected to continue to successfully fulfill its target of welcoming 10 million visitors by 2021, becoming an attractive and top choice destination for Vietnamese and international tourists./.