09 State policies on cultural heritage in Vietnam from July 1, 2025

09 State policies on cultural heritage in Vietnam from July 1, 2025​ (Image from the Internet)

09 State policies on cultural heritage in Vietnam from July 1, 2025

According to Article 7 of the Cultural Heritage Law 2024, the State policies on cultural heritage in Vietnam from July 1, 2025 include:

- The state plays a leading role in ensuring and developing activities to protect and promote the value of cultural heritage; mobilizing social resources for activities that protect and promote the value of cultural heritage in regions, localities, and among ethnic communities.

- Protecting the legal rights and interests of cultural heritage owners.

- Prioritizing the allocation of state budgets for the following activities:

+ Protecting and promoting the value of cultural heritage recognized or inscribed by UNESCO;

+ Protecting and promoting the value of the languages and scripts of Vietnamese ethnic groups; expressions and oral traditions; folk performing arts; traditional architecture; traditional handicrafts; folk knowledge and experience in disease prevention and treatment as well as other folk knowledge; cuisine, costumes, and traditional festivals;

+ Protecting and promoting the value of cultural heritage in ethnic minority and mountainous regions, border areas, and islands, with a special priority on protecting and promoting the cultural heritage value of very small ethnic minorities and those at risk of losing their cultural values;

+ Protecting and promoting the value of national special relics, seriously degraded historical-cultural relics under public ownership; significant public museums; national treasures; intangible cultural heritage in the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage; documentary heritage in the National List of Documentary Heritage; intangible cultural heritage at risk of oblivion and extinction.

The Government of Vietnam specifies in detail public museums with significant roles as stipulated herein;

+ Researching, applying advanced scientific and technological achievements, digitizing cultural heritage, and digital transformation in activities aimed at protecting and promoting the value of cultural heritage.

- Honoring and providing preferential policies for talented artisans, artisans who have contributed significantly to protecting and promoting the value of intangible cultural heritage, especially artisans from ethnic minorities, those living in mountainous, border, or island areas, and artisans who are disabled or belong to poor or near-poor households.

- Supporting training, professional development, and enhancing capacity, skills for personnel involved in protecting and promoting the value of cultural heritage, especially personnel in ethnic minority regions, and those residing in mountainous, border, or island areas.

- Supporting and facilitating organizations and individuals in assisting, sponsoring, donating, investing funds, manpower, and facilities for activities to protect and promote the value of cultural heritage and the Cultural Heritage Conservation Fund established by a decision of the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the Chairperson of the provincial People's Committee.

- Facilitating regions and localities to enhance linkage and promote activities to protect and promote the value of cultural heritage; localities establish Cultural Heritage Conservation Funds according to legal regulations to proactively preserve degraded cultural heritage, especially heritage affected by natural conditions, disasters, storms, floods, and heritage of ethnic minorities and mountainous regions.

- Exempting or reducing admission fees for visiting, studying, and researching cultural heritage at museums, historical-cultural relics, and scenic spots under public ownership for children, students, individuals from poor and near-poor households, the elderly, people with disabilities, individuals with contributions to the revolution, ethnic minorities in particularly difficult socio-economic conditions, People's Artisans, Eminent Artisans, and other special categories as prescribed by the Cultural Heritage Law 2024 and other related legal regulations.

- Supporting and facilitating organizations and individuals engaged in cultural heritage service businesses in accordance with the Cultural Heritage Law 2024 and other related legal regulations.

More details can be found in the Cultural Heritage Law 2024, which takes effect from July 1, 2025.

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