Ethnology Museum listed in Top Asia’s 25 best museums

The Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology on Nguyen Van Huyen Street in Ha Noi capital shows the diversity of Vietnamese culture through multidimensional features of each of the 54 Vietnamese ethnic groups..

Director of Viet Nam Ethnology Museum Vo Quang Trong said that this was up 2 notches from the previous year and 2014 is the third year in a row that the Museum has won TripAdvisor Traveler’s Choice award.

Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology (VME) is a unit under the Vietnam 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.

According to the statistics of the first nine months of 2014, the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology has received more than 283,000 visitors, one third of whom were foreigners.

The museum was firstly opened to the public in November 1997.

                                                                                                                                By Ngoc Van