Vietnam National Museum of History
The Vietnam National Museum of History is a public service unit under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, which is at the forefront of the system of Vietnam’s history-society museums. The Museum has the function of researching, excavating, collecting, storing, inventorying, preserving, displaying, introducing, and promoting the value of documents and artifacts related to the Vietnamese historical process. In addition, the Museum also organizes activities for training, consulting, assessing, appraising, managing, and exploring services within the scope of museum operation.
The Vietnam National Museum of History stores and preserves about 200,000 objects and materials of Vietnamese cultural history among which there are nearly 110,000 antiques and 20 national treasures from prehistory to 1945. There are rare and valuable collections representing the history and culture of Vietnam such as: archaeological artifacts from Early Paleolithic Age to Metal Age; a collection of Dong Son culture; a collection of Vietnamese traditional glazed ceramics; bronze items of the Lê – Nguyễn dynasties; Champa stone sculptures; a collection of foreign ceramics originating from China, Japan, India and Southeast Asia.
In the historical period from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, there are more than 80,000 documents and artifacts relating to the Revolutionary history, the Communist Party of Vietnam, the President Ho Chi Minh and leaders of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
At present, the VNMH has two permanent exhibitions at two different locations: the first one at No. 1 Trang Tien street – Hanoi, showing the history of Vietnam from prehistory to the end of the Nguyen Dynasty (1945); the latter at No.216 Tran Quang Khai Street – Hanoi, expressing the history of Vietnam from the mid-19th century to present. (Vietnam National Museum of History).
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