Preservation of 18th and 19th Century Worshipping Objects

$42K USD

Funder	Department of State
Recipient Organization	U.S. Government - Department of State
Country	Vietnam
Start Date	May 13, 2006
End Date	Oct 16, 2009
Duration	1,252 days
Number of Grantees	2
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`77184-48`

Grant Description

To support the preservation of a collection of worshipping objects in the Vietnamese History Museum Pham Quoc Quan. The collection of 70 Buddhist and ancestral devotional objects includes altars, ancestral tablets, and carved chests.

Objects date from the Le-Nguyen Dynasty of the 18th and 19th centures and are now threatened by deterioration and insect damage.