Peoples

Back-basket is one of the indispensable items in daily life and production of the ethnic minorities in Dak Lak in general, and the Mnong in Lak district in particular.

The Muong migrated to Dak Lak since 1954, according to 2019 statistics, in Dak Lak had 15,656 Muong people, living mainly in Ea H'leo, Ea Sup, Buon Don, Krong Nang, and Ea Kar districts, Buon Ma Thuot city.

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.

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.

On September 24th, Dak Lak Provincial Museum held to restore the Spirit ritual before cutting down trees of the Ede ethnic people.

In the afternoon on June 20th, Culture Center of Dak Lak held the training-class ending ceremony of gongs and ethnic musical instruments in 2018.

On the fieldwork trip about the Central Highlands Epic in Dak Lak, the mission group of University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi National University coordinated with Academy of Culture led by Pro.PhD. Nguyen Van Kim, Party Committee Secretary, Vice Principal of University of Social Sciences and Humanities visited and shared experiences with Dak Lak Museum.