Thursday, October 2, 2014

Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology listed in top 25 Asian museums

TripAdvisor website has named the Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology a Travelers’ Choice Museum and one of the top 25 most attractive museums in Asia.
 
According to the website, Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology (VME) is a unit under the Viet Nam Academy of Social Sciences. It is both a research centre and a public museum exhibiting the ethnic groups of Viet Nam. The mission of the Museum is scientific research, collection, documentation, conservation, exhibition and preserving the cultural and historic patrimony of the nation's different ethnic groups.
 
Since the beginning of this year, the museum has attracted 200,000 visitors, including 80,000 foreigners. As many as 10,000 objects and 15,000 photographs are displayed at the museum spanning an area of 3 hectares.
 
Established in 1997, the museum serves as an ideal place to exhibit artifacts and documents featuring cultural traditions and the life of 54 Vietnamese ethnic minority groups./.

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