Project on HCM City Arts Museum debuts

      The Ho Chi Minh City Municipal Committee has just accepted a project to upgrade and build the city’s Arts Museum at 97, Pho Duc Chinh road.
The committee also assigned the Municipal Culture, Sports and Tourism Department and the investment manager, in cooperation with the Architecture and Projection Department, to draw up detailed plans for the construction site of 95,000 square meters.
The current Ho Chi Minh City Arts Museum has just 3 older buildings and they will be upgraded under the project to function as administrative offices and stores.
A new, large, modern accommodation for exhibits will be built; but officials indicated that the new one should be designed in harmony with the old buildings.
According to officials, the site will be cleared for construction by October 2009 and the construction will officially be implemented immediately afterwards.