Visit Hung Vuong Museum

In the journey back to the homeland of the ancestors, surely visitors cannot ignore the Hung Vuong museum located right on Nghia Linh mountain. This is one of the destinations belonging to the national historical relic complex of Hung Temple. Each artifact and archeology of the Hung Kings period is displayed in the museum as a sacred evidence connected to the legends of the Ancestral land.

 

 

Where is Hung Vuong Museum in Phu Tho?

Hung Vuong Museum  is located on a hill in Hy Cuong commune – Viet Tri – Phu Tho. The museum possesses a unique architectural beauty, clearly depicting a heroic historical period of the Vietnamese nation that anyone who takes it back here feels proud and moved.

Hung Vuong National Museum is designed based on the worldview of the ancient Vietnamese people with the concept of round sky – square earth, consisting of 2 floors with an area of ​​​​up to 1,000m2. Looking down from the top of Nghia Linh mountain, the museum looks like a giant square box that most people associate with the story of Chung cake and Day cake.

At the museum, there are nearly 700 original artifacts with a total of 4,000 objects collected and displayed in 5 main thematic rooms depicting and highlighting topics such as: people, primitive country; the time of building the country; the cause of nation building Van Lang of the Hung Kings; or the Hung Temple relic as well as the worshiping of the Hung Kings on the ancient terrace of Phong Chau; The affection of the people and the concern of the social regimes of the Hung Temple period.

 

 

Explore Hung Vuong Museum – Phu Tho

At  Hung Vuong museum  , it is divided very clearly to help visitors easily learn. The exhibits at the museum are selected according to four typical cultural periods: Phung Nguyen, Dong Dau, Go Mun, and Dong Son. In particular, the artifacts of the Dong Dau cultural period at the museum are extremely richly collected. All of these artifacts have connected us back to the old days of the Hung Kings era and better understand the life of the people at that time.

 

Phung Nguyen Culture

Phung Nguyen culture was discovered in 1959. This is an extremely important period in archeology in Vietnam as well as in Southeast Asia. And this is also the beginning of the brass age in Vietnam; is an important factor in the formation of Dong Son culture – the culture of the beginning of the Vietnamese state.

Right from the discovery of the artifacts,  the Hung Vuong National Museum  cooperated with the authorities to excavate and bring it here for storage and display. Artifacts are mainly made of materials: bone, horn, ceramic, stone…with many different images and show a very high level of development in aesthetics, consciousness and perception of Phung Nguyen residents. Thanks to that, the artifacts at the museum have recreated a vivid picture of the historical period of the pre-Hungary period.

 

 

Dong Dau Culture

Residents of the Dong Dau culture period were agricultural residents. Live in settlements and farming along the foothills. Raising livestock, exploiting natural products to ensure long-term settlement life. The basic feature of Dong Dau culture is the use of bone and horn tools to make tools such as arrows and javelins with barbs.

The material and spiritual life of the Dong Dau people was very rich, there were exchanges between other regions in our country. The reciprocal multidimensional relationship between regions is an inevitable process of the law of human development.

 

 

 

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Go Mun Culture

This is a continuation culture between the Phung Nguyen and Dong Son cultures. Go Mun culture has reflected very honestly through the artifacts displayed at the museum. The cultural artifacts of Go Mun are mainly made of materials: pottery, stone, bronze. Not only rich in materials but also diverse in types of tools, utensils, activities as well as decorative arts. The most characteristic is the living tools of 3 materials bronze, stone, and ceramic.

 

Dong Son Culture

It is a very vivid re-enactment period when at the museum are displayed artifacts from archaeological sites such as: village, De mound… This culture has many types of residence sites, sites. workshops, burial sites… in which bronze is the most typical relic.

The bronze drums – historical relics are extremely unique and unique. We also see many cultural and economic activities of this period such as: transportation in the Hung Kings period was the waterway. Therefore, the Dong Son boat on the bronze drum is a familiar image of Vietnamese people with rivers, wharfs, and banyan trees.

 

Dong Son Culture

 

Go De’s Ancient Tomb

 

The establishment of Hung Vuong museum right next to the Hung Temple relic has met the expectations of Vietnamese people both at home and abroad when having the opportunity to visit the land of the ancestors. The museum is a place to depict the heroic history of the nation and also a lesson to remind the next generation to inherit and preserve the heroic historical values ​​left by our ancestors.

And if you have the opportunity to visit, do not forget to visit  the Hung Vuong museum  to understand more about traditional culture and have the most complete insight into the history of building and defending the country!