Những Bảo Tàng

Bảo Tàng Mỹ Thuật - Museum of Fine Arts

Vietnamese life, occasion, and history. Less of impression or abstraction of feeling. More to capture exact feelings of triumph, liberation, and celebration. 

Nước Nguồn - The Source of Water. In Vietnamese, "Nước" translates to both water and nation. Thus, Hồ Chi Mình is the source of life to the nation.

Contemporary Section

Relics of Hanoi encased in amber to preserve the city.

screenshot of a girl playing in Sống Chết - Dead River

There are not many male figures in the contemporary section. 

Bảo Tàng Phụ Nữ Việt Nam - Women's Museum
It made me emotional seeing and
leaming about the many
Vietnamese women who supported
this Nation. I could not help but
think of my birth mother.

Bảo Tàng Dân Tộc Học 

An extensive collection of the

54 ethic minority groups in

vietnam. It explains their origins;

ranging from Austronesia, China,

India, and Cambodia; their

customs (some strongly

patrilineal, some strongly

matrilineal); relationship

to theeir environments

(Swidden agriculture, hunting

and gathering); and the

mediums of passing down stories (wearing, batik, clothes

making, hemp macrame).

The ultimate bike packing of fishing traps.

The museum also boasts an impressive reconstruction of ethnic minority architecture.

Fully interactive one can explore the rooms of traditional housing. 

Due to the highly socially
stratified aspectr of many of
these groups, many of the
homes are strictly parsed
into living quarters for
heads of houses, eldests,
newly weds, and widow(ers).
Some groups do not allow
male figures enter the
newlywed chamber, other
than the husband.