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The Museum of Ethnology: The Best Museum in Vietnam
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    If I were you, I'll visit just one museum in Hanoi and forget about the rest. The Museum of Ethonology in Hanoi which exhibits the traditional cultures of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups is worth taking a look. Especially if you're interested in the different tribes in Vietnam and haven't got the time to visit every darn province. There are both indoor and outdoor displays but my favourite is the outdoor section which boasts an impressive display of different tribal houses and elaborate funery displays. Admission 10,000 VND (US66¢) How to get there: It's some 6km (3 3/4 miles) W of town so grab a cab. Opening Times: Tues-Sun 8:30-11:30am and 1:30-4:30pm

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  • Phone: 84 48 360 350
  • Directions: Nguyen v.Huyen Road 191/20/10 Nghia Do, Can Ciay Hanoi, Vietnam

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    The Museum of Ethnology: Vietnam 54 minority Ethnic Group
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  • Interesting museum to visit in Hanoi is Museum of Ethnology. It is a public museum. To enter it cost 20,000 VND. The museum is large in area. It has two parts outside and inside. They are information in English (not all) on the lives and cultures of fifty four different minority Ethnic groups that make up Vietnam. Inside they are window displays showing tools, clothing, weapons, and other artefacts and recreated home from different Vietnamese minority Ethnic groups. Outside they are different tribal houses on display. You can go inside and have a good look. I found very interesting the way each tribal house represented itself. The outside set up is very pleasant with footpath leads to tribal house. The area is surrounded by garden and trees. The Museum is located in a large open area on Nguyen Van Huyen Street, Cau Giay District.

  • Address: Nguyen Van Huyen street Cau Giay District
  • Phone: (84.4) 756 2193
  • Website: www.vme.org.vn
  • Other Contact: email:vme18@hn.vnn.vn

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    The Museum of Ethnology: A Place to Know the Ethnic Minority Groups Better
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    If you are not able to visit Sapa, then this is the place you should go during your visit to Hanoi. The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology features a wide collection of art and daily items gathered from the various tribal groups in Vietnam. The collection is fascinating and you can see the efforts and pain taken to introduce the ethnic groups to visitors. What I like about the museum is that it takes the efforts to have an open air space, exhibiting the types of houses stayed by the groups. It was a great experience especially I don't have the time to spare to travel to Sapa. Though this place is far away from Central, you shouldn't miss it. The building of the Museum was also assisted by the French.

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  • Address: Nguyen Van Huyen Road, Cau Giay District, Hanoi
  • Phone: (84-4)7562193

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    The Museum of Ethnology: Ethnology Insight!
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  • A visit to this museum will give you a great overview of the various hill tribes of the country and greater region. Within the grounds are examples of the various housing styles built by the ethnic minorities of the region.

  • Address: Nguyen Van Huyen Street, Cau Giay District, Hanoi

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    With indoor and open-air exhibits, reconstructions, photographs and video documentaries the Museum of Ethnology presents the lives of Vietnam's 54 Ethnic minorities, their artefacts, dress and music. A particular feature of the Museum is several full live size building typical of selected ethnic minority groups and traditional Vietnamese family house built in attractive gardens built by craftpeople from the villages themselves. Entrance fee is 20,000 VND. Opening hours from 8.30 am to 5.30 pm Closed on Mondays

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  • Address: Duong Nguyen Van Huyen Road
  • Phone: 84.4.7562193
  • Directions: near Daewoo Hotel

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    The Museum of Ethnology: Giving context to observations
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  • The Museum of Ethnology, a taxi ride deep into the suburbs, was an excellent presentation of the ethnic complexity of Vietnam. We visited afterhaving seen some of the people and villages of the mountain tribe people of the north and found what we had seen put into a wider context. There were excellent audio-visual presentations which, fortunately for us were in English, as well as models, maps, artifacts and descriptive panels. The snack bar was basic but the people running it were friendly. Unfortunately the craftshop was shut when we visited, asit appeared to have arange of products for sale.

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  • Address: D Nguyen Van Huyen

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    The Museum of Ethnology: Culture Overview
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  • The museum itself is very well organized & give a lively description about culture & people. I rate it as the best museum in town. Open from 8.30 - 17.30. OFF on MONDAYS Tickets : 20.000 vnd

  • Address: Nguyen Van Huyen St.
  • Phone: 84.4.8360352
  • Directions: Call a taxi to go there , or a motorbike taxi. If you want, taxi will wait until you back to town ( 15 min ride ) without fee.

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    The Museum of Ethnology: A walk in the museum park and garden
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  • In the sun, in the shade of the trees, smelling the scents of flowers, walk in the park, and discover the habitat of some of the many ethnic groups of Vietnam; most displays are houses, and inside is furniture, household and even there are people practising traditional handcrafting. It looks a bit artificial, but remember, it is a museum! The houses in the park are mainly from ethnic minorities of Vietnam, most of them from the mountain areas of the North. There are 75 ethnic groups in Vietnam, belonging to eight main ethno linguistic groups: The majority: the Viet Muongs Thai group, Mon-Khmer group, Hmong Dao group, Kadai group, Austronesian group (relatives of Papu or Australian aborigines), Chinese Han group and Tibeto-Burmese group. Not all 75 groups are represented, but there are examples of diversity. One of the most impressive displays is the Bahnar communal house (previous tip), but many other deserve a visit; there is an incredible diversity in the minorities , and this diversity is displayed by the different architectural styles. I found the Jörai from Gia Lai grave (main picture), moving, with the naïve representation of people and souls (these are not zombies!) who escort the dead to his last resting place. . . . . . The Ede (Austraunesian) long house (picture 2) is quite impressive, and I imagine communities living in there; many artefacts are displayed in the houses, and the decoration inside (picture 3), is also very exotic (Ede long house); You can also look at handcrafting presentations, like here (picture 4), in the Kinh (Viet Muong) house. I show also a Hmong (Hmong Daohttp://www.hmongstudies.org/LearnaboutHmongwebsite.html) house (picture 5), a very tiny house, from an ethnic minority living in the northern mountains, suffering repression in Vietnam and Laos. Entrance: 20.000 Dong 8:30 am to 17:30 pm, closed Mondays

  • Address: Nguyen Van Huyen street,
  • Phone: (84-4) 7562193
  • Directions: Ciau Gay district, west of centre, 15-20 mn drive, all taxi know.
  • Website: http://www.vme.org.vn/index.asp

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    The Museum of Ethnology: Beautiful Asian museum!
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  • It is probably one of the best ethnological museums I had the luck to visit; people of Vietnam, their traditions, their beliefs, their differences, how they lived (and still live), the diversity of cultures, it is all here displayed, explained, in a modern building set in a beautiful park. There are an outdoor museum, showing mainly traditional houses, furniture, household in the houses, some ritual artefacts, and an indoor museum where most of Vietnamese ethnological groups are represented, by examples of tools, clothes, ritual artefacts, household, jewellery,. . . . The way of displaying is modern and lively, with many video displays, photographs, dioramas. Amazing is the diversity of people on such a territory like Vietnam, and the ethnic minorities are here well represented; I guess a visit here is a real introduction to Vietnam if planning a longer stay in the country. The museum, designed by Vietnamese and French architects, has officially opened in 1997; there are about 15000 artefacts, 40000 photographs, thousands of slides, films, video and audio tapes, a very rich museum where the contribution of the former colonialist (not the neo colonialist whose contribution was napalm and defoliants) was essential. When I visited, there was a temporary exhibition about the research of Georges Condominas, a pioneer of Vietnamese ethnology, example of cooperation of Vietnam and the former colonialist. Here are a few pictures as an introduction to this museum. Entrance: 20.000 Dong 8:30 am to 17:30 pm, closed Mondays

  • Address: Nguyen Van Huyen street,
  • Phone: (84-4) 7562193
  • Directions: Ciau Gay district, west of centre, 15-20 mn drive, all taxi know.
  • Website: http://www.vme.org.vn/index.asp

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    The Museum of Ethnology: Visit inside the museum building
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  • Be prepared to spend at least one afternoon to have only a very small introduction to Vietnamese cultural diversity! Most ethnic groups or areas are represented in the museum! This museum is a real work of cultural conservancy and the items displayed were saved during colonial days and the work was wonderfully pursued by the free Democratic Republic of Vietnam (no sarcasm, this time!) . The building and the rooms are very well lightened, items very well displayed; many explanatory boards give the visitor plenty of a bit scholar explanations, but retain what you like. Videos, dioramas. . . a modern museum. The pictures show how things are displayed, like the fish traps on the main picture, the ritual decotation, the weapons, the Cham cart. . . On the last picture is ethnologist Georges Condominas on field work (Picture from the museum website). Entrance: 20.000 Dong 8:30 am to 17:30 pm, closed Mondays

  • Address: Nguyen Van Huyen street,
  • Phone: (84-4) 7562193
  • Directions: Ciau Gay district, west of centre, 15-20 mn drive, all taxi know.
  • Website: http://www.vme.org.vn/index.asp

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