The opening ceremony was attended by representatives from the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Pleiku Museum, the Ayun Pa Ward Department of Culture and Society, leaders of neighboring communes, the Phú Cần Village Ancestral Temple Service Committee, antique collectors, and teachers and students from the host school.
More than 100 display boards feature over 300 images and documents, including royal decrees preserved in village communal houses, ancient land registers kept in private homes, and hundreds of lacquered boards, parallel sentences, and stone steles collected from pagodas, shrines, residences, and tombs across Gia Lai.
The exhibition is divided into two sections. The first showcases royal decrees and land registers from the reigns of Emperors Tự Đức, Duy Tân, and Bảo Đại, which conferred titles on deities worshipped in local communal houses. It also presents decrees honoring individuals who contributed to the Nguyễn dynasty, still preserved by families such as the Nguyễn, Trần, Văn, and Tô lineages, alongside land-sale documents maintained by long-established families in the An Khê area.
The second section focuses on Han-Nom inscriptions found on horizontal lacquered boards, parallel sentences, ritual texts, antiques, and tomb steles, reflecting the enduring influence of Han-Nom script across communal and religious life in the province.
Organised by Pleiku Museum under the provincial project “Preserving and Promoting the Value of Han-Nom Heritage in Gia Lai Province”, the exhibition is part of a wider effort to make the documentary heritage more accessible to the public.
The exhibition in Ayun Pa Ward will run from August 27 to 29, offering residents and visitors an opportunity to explore Gia Lai’s history and culture through its Han-Nom heritage.