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Trung Vuong Ward, Thai Nguyen City, Thai Nguyen province, VietNam

WHERE IS VIETNAM’S CULTURE MUSEUM?

 Thai Nguyen Method The capital of Hanoi is about 80km, the Museum of Culture of Vietnam’s Ethnic Groups is located at 1 Doi Can, Thai Nguyen City, built in 1960 with the initial name of Viet Bac Museum. . In 1990, it changed its name to the Museum of Cultures of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups and became one of the five National Museums of Vietnam. 

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WHERE IS VIETNAM’S CULTURE MUSEUM?

 Thai Nguyen Method The capital of Hanoi is about 80km, the Museum of Culture of Vietnam’s Ethnic Groups is located at 1 Doi Can, Thai Nguyen City, built in 1960 with the initial name of Viet Bac Museum. . In 1990, it changed its name to the Museum of Cultures of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups and became one of the five National Museums of Vietnam. 

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INTRODUCTION TO THAI NGUYEN VIETNAM Ethnic Culture Museum

Built on a campus of 40,000m² by the poetic Cau River, at the intersection of Doi Can, Hoang Van Thu, Bac Kan and August Network Methods, the Museum of Cultures of Vietnam’s Ethnic Groups This is a large-scale architectural work with many artistic qualities, won the Ho Chi Minh Award for architectural work phase 1 in 2006.

With the attention of the Party, the State, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Museum of Cultures of Vietnam’s Ethnic Groups is increasingly developing. Over the past 50 years, the Museum has conducted hundreds of researches and collections nationwide, contributing to bringing the total number of artifacts in the facility’s warehouse to nearly 30,000 valuable documents and artifacts. That is an important basis for the Museum of Culture of Vietnam’s Ethnic Groups to complete its indoor and outdoor display system, serving well the domestic and international visiting public.

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Currently, the display system of the Museum of Cultures of Vietnam’s Ethnic Groups is built on the basis of language groups associated with regional cultures, introducing the cultural identities of 54 ethnic groups associated with each ecological landscape. residence area. Including a solemn space in Hall A of the Museum and a system of 5 galleries.

The solemn space of the Museum is the place to welcome guests. Here, an overview of Vietnamese culture is introduced. In the large lobby of the Museum, we can admire the portrait of President Ho Chi Minh, the beloved leader of the Vietnamese nation. He hugs three children, on behalf of the three North – Central – South regions. The statue shows Uncle Ho’s boundless love for the children of the three regions, and at the same time represents the policy of unity, diversity and solidarity of the Vietnamese nation.

HISTORY OF VIETNAM Ethnic Culture Museum THAI NGUYEN

The Museum of Cultures of Vietnam’s Ethnicities was built in 1960. In the early period, it was named Viet Bac Museum, performing the function and task of scientific research and education, traditional cultural history, history of struggle. revolutionary revolution of the people of Viet Bac ethnic groups. In 1976, Viet Bac Autonomous Region dissolved, Viet Bac Museum was transferred to the Ministry of Culture and Information Administration. From here, the Museum redirects its activities from the General Museum to the Specialized Museum of National Culture. On March 31, 1990, the Minister of Culture approved to change the name to Museum of Cultures of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups and became one of 7 National Museums of Vietnam.

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VISIT THE VIETNAMESE Ethnic Culture Museum THAI NGUYEN

Behind Uncle Ho’s statue is a large wooden bas-relief that simulates typical traditional festivals of ethnic groups from the North to the South: Khen dance in the highland market, lion dance in the spring festival in the valley, festivals Ka Te of the Cham people, the buffalo stabbing festival of the Central Highlands people and the Ngo boat racing festival of the Southern people.

Room 1 : Display and introduce the culture of ethnic groups in the Vietnamese – Muong language group ( Kinh, Muong, Tho, Chut). The people live mainly by farming wet rice and fishing. In the spiritual life, there is a custom of worshiping with ancestors and traditional crafts are developed at a high level. The Viet Muong are two ethnic groups with similarities in traditional culture and at the same time many differences. Interesting for passengers to learn.

Room 2 : Display and introduce the Tay – Thai language groups (Tay, Thai, Nung, Giay, Lao, Lu, San Chay, Bo Y). The people live mainly in houses on stilts, grow rice in the valleys, along rivers and streams, with a water system by ditches, stilts, stilts, and rafters. The crafts of forging and weaving are quite developed with beautiful and delicate products. In particular, they have a rich spiritual life with many unique dances and then songs.

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Room 3 : Displaying and introducing the culture of the ethnic groups belonging to 3 language groups Hmong – Dao (Hmong, Dao, Pa Then), Ka Dai (La Chi, La Ha, Co Lao, Pu Peo) and Tibetan Burmese (La Chi, La Ha, Co Lao, Pu Peo) Lo Lo, Phu La, Ha Nhi, La Hu, Cong, Si La). The people are good at farming on upland fields and terraced fields. The fair is a place that clearly shows the highland cultural identity, culinary culture, wearing culture, embroidery, flower printing, music performances, and Khen dance.

Room 4:  Displaying and introducing the culture of 21 ethnic groups belonging to the Mon – Khmer language group (Bru – Van Kieu, Ba Na, Brau, Cho Ro, Co, Co Tu, Gie Trieng, Co Ho, H’re, Khang, Khmer, Xinh Mun, Mnong, Kho Mu, Mang, O Du, Ma, Ro Mam, Ta Oi, Xo Dang, Xtieng). The people are scattered in the Northwest, the Central Highlands and the South.

Commercial life is mainly swidden cultivation, fields of relatively high altitude, co-cultivation by the method of digging holes for seeds. The architecture of communal houses in the Central Highlands, pagodas of the Khmer ethnic group; Knitting crafts and world cultural festivals are the unique cultural features of Mon – Khmer residents.

Room 5:  Display and introduce the culture of the ethnic groups belonging to the Austronesian language group (Cham, Raglai, Gia Rai, Ede, Chu Ru) and the Han language (Hoa, San Diu, Ngai). Ethnic groups belonging to the Austronesian language group live concentrated on the red soil plateaus of the Central Highlands and the central coastal strip; Austronesian culture is strongly matriarchal. Ethnic groups belonging to the Han language group reside in all three regions of the North, Central and South; Han culture is strongly patriarchal.

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With over 4,500 original documents and artifacts, movies, 735 supporting scientific documents, the display system of the Museum of Cultures of Vietnam’s Ethnic Groups is built according to an advanced and modern method. Electronic computer equipment and sound applications have recreated the landscape of residence and cultural life of 54 ethnic groups, mesmerizing the visiting public. Each gallery has a rich system of documents and artifacts. The diversity has faithfully recreated the residential landscape and cultural life of 54 ethnic groups.

From the northernmost point of Ha Giang to the land of Ca Mau cape with close images such as highland markets, forest elephant hunting scenes, images of the northern ethnic people poking holes and dropping seeds, the gong festival of Vietnam. the Ede and Ba Na people in the Central Highlands; rivers and streams of the Southern people; traditional crafts, traditional forms of cultural activities in costumes, music, cuisine, festivals in labor production…

In addition to the permanent display, each year the museum conducts dozens of traveling exhibitions throughout the country, including remote, border and island areas, meeting the needs of people to enjoy culture. people.

In parallel with museum activities, cadres, civil servants and public employees in the unit regularly research and assist ministerial-level and institute-level scientists on national cultural professions, in order to better serve their work and improve their skills. professional expertise. Next to that, specialized teaching activities, talks, exchanges and learning experiences are very interested and attended by museum staff, contributing to the introduction and marketing of ethnic cultural values. increasingly extensive.

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Currently, the outdoor display system of the Museum of Cultures of Vietnam’s Ethnic Groups has entered the finishing stage. The space of 6 cultural regions: Northern high mountain, Valley, Midland – Northern region, Central region – Coastal region, Truong Son – Central Highlands, and Southern Delta have been basically shaped.

Each cultural region has a festival space, a typical regional landscape structure and a specific and original house as a highlight to introduce Vietnamese cultural values ​​to passengers. Here, passengers can also easily see with their own eyes many devices that are very familiar from the past of the nation such as a rice mill made of bamboo slats, a plow made of rudimentary trees, thatched roofs, and earthen walls. …

It can be said that the museum of traditional culture of Vietnamese ethnic groups is a common roof that preserves typical and unique cultural features and fascinates passengers near and far. That is what makes the Vietnamese people more beautiful. and brilliant.Each ethnic group is a blooming flower on the S-shaped strip of land, the pride of every Vietnamese child. And the beautiful land of Thai Nguyen contains great potentials for tourism development. .

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