Vietnam Museum of Ethnology is under Vietnam Institute of Social Sciences. This museum is opposite to Nghia Do park and lies on Nguyen Van Huyen street, Cau Giay District, Hanoi.
The number of tourists visiting Museum annually increase: 1998: 37,000
visitors, 2003: 92,000, 2008: 395,000, 2009: 400,000 visitors.
TripAdvisor (a travel website) has voted Vietnam Museum of Ethnology is 4th in
top 25 most attractive museums in Asia in 2014.
Museum’s functions are to research Vietnam people, collect, classificate,
evaluate, preserve, restore, display, introduce and exploit historical values -
culture of Ethnic groups, providing ethnographic materials for training staff.
Museum stores and displays many cultural artifacts of 54 ethnic groups in
Vietnam, which includes 15,000 artifacts,
42,000 movies (together with colourful photos), Positive Film 2190, 273 audiotapes
of interviews, music, 373 video tapes and 25 CDs (prior to 2000).
The objects
were classified by many different criteria such as ethnicity, utilities,
clothing, jewelery, farming tools, fishing gear, weapons, furniture, musical
instruments, religious-belief, wedding, funerals and many other mental
functions, other societies…
Along with exhibits in the galleries, there are many photos and a
documentary film, reflecting all aspects of cultural objects, traits in the
life and creativity of the human race.
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