via Vietnam Plus, 25 May 2023: The State Archives and Records Administration completed a project funded by the United States Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation to preserve the degraded woodblocks of the Nguyen Dynasty, a UNESCO-recognized documentary heritage item, at the National Archives Centre IV in Lam Dong province.
The State Archives and Records Administration on May 25 held a ceremony to announce the completion of a project on preserving Nguyen Dynasty woodblocks (moc ban), a UNESCO-recognised documentary heritage item, at the National Archives Centre IV in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong.
The project, funded by the United States Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP), started in July 2020 with a funding of over 88,000 USD, preserving 500 degraded plates of woodblock at the National Archives Centre IV.
After the AFCP grant was approved in July 2020, a technical team studied and assessed the damage level of the degraded woodblocks. From January to the end of August 2021, the team carried out conservation treatment of the decayed woodblocks using techniques used in developed countries like Japan, the Republic of Korea and France.
