The Sedang is an ethnic group consisting of 5 major local groups: Xo Teng, To Dra, Mo Nam, Ca Dong and Ha Lang. They mainly lived in Dak To, Sa Thay, Dak Glay, Kon Plong, Ngoc Hoi and Dak Ha districts (Kon Tum province), Son Ha district (Quang Ngai province), Bac Tra My and Nam Tra My districts (Quang Nam province), Cu M'gar and Krong Pak districts (Dak Lak province). During the process of formation and development, the Sedang also preserve the traditionally cultural values, including the beauty on the traditional costumes.
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Museum experience and education is a common trend of the museums in the world and region. In Vietnam, the forms of educational experience is a regular activity in major museums such as Vietnam National Museum of History, Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Vietnamese People Museum of Culture, Ho Chi Minh Museum, Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts, Vietnamese Women's Museum, etc.
The Ede practise the water ritual when there is an important event in a village such as moving the village and building a new village, and it is performed annually on new year with the aims of praying the Water God for clean water, and on this occasion, the villagers clean up the water wharf. The water ritual lasting for three days led to hold by the water wharf head.
In the orientation of activities, Dak Lak Provincial Museum always pay attention to carry out research, collection, preservation and promotion of the fine traditional cultural values of ethnic groups, bringing traditional musical instruments to become a continuous activity at the Dak Lak Provincial Museum. This is a very natural way for visitors to immerse themselves in the Central Highlands music scene.
Today, development of information technology has brought a lot of utility for its users. In particular, the electronic information system via Intenet is used mostly thanks to its popularity in communication, searching and reading information by the superiority of the software applications on management, documentation digitization. This proves that the information technology has become one of the important factors that deeply transforms the development of the whole society, including culture in general and museum in particular.
Provincial People's Committee of Dak Lak issued Decision No. 2475/QD-UBND on ratifying the project of quality improvement and innovation of operation ways of the Dak Lak Museum to attract visitors and develop tourism.