Site Significance
My Son Sanctuary is one of Vietnam’s only archaeological sites to be inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site and was inhabited from the 4th- through the 15th century AD.  Located in central Vietnam in one of the country's least developed provinces, a large majority of My Son’s exquisite architecture was destroyed by aerial bombing during a single week of the Vietnam War. 

Threats
• Unrepaired damage from the Vietnam War
• Looting
• Deterioration from Exposure
• Vegetation Overgrowth
• Flooding

Project Accomplishments
Working in partnership with the Lerici Institute, UNESCO World Heritage Centre Asia Pacific and the Vietnamese Quang Nam Provincial People's Committee Centre for Conservation of Heritage and Monuments, GHF provided support for urgently needed stabilization, archaeological documentation, planning, site conservation and training to help save the last remaining temples of My Son Sanctuary, Vietnam.

Planning
A detailed topographic map of the entire site was produced helping to plan for zoningidentifying the protected area, buffer zone and land-mined areas. Then mapping of allthe buildings was done in the surveyed area.Campaigns of geophysical prospect have beencarried-out to localize buried remains and dig-up trial trenches to work out the stratigraphicsequence, in behalf of a more correctchronology.

Conservation Science
Conservation efforts at My Son were focused on the scientific conservation of the most endangered monuments of Group E (especially E7, the Library) and Group G, as well as providing an intensive training program for on-site Vietnamese conservators and archaeologists.

Community
GHF established a formal two-year education and outreach program for Vietnam's World Heritage in Young Hands program at selected schools in Hoi An Ancient Town near My Son and in Quang Nam Province which were visited by over 900 Grand Circle Travel customers on their tours in 2005. 

Partnerships
UNESCO Asia Project
Danang Province Cultural Heritage Committee
The Lerici Institute, Lerici Foundation
Quang Nam Provincial People’s Committee Centre for Conservation of Heritage
and Monuments

Updates
• The preparation of a Master Conservation Plan for the extant archaeological features.

• Conservation of Temple E7 (the Library).

• Additional conservation of structures in Groups E and G.

• Conservation training for Vietnamese workers.

• Support for the Vietnam World Heritage in Young Hands Program.