Among some famous sites such as Sword Lake, 36 Old Streets, Van Mieu-Quoc Tu Giam (Temple of Literature), etc. Perhaps Hanoi Museum is beautiful place that shouldn’t miss for tourists who want to explore Hanoi through the length of thousands years of Vietnam history.

Located on Pham Hung Street, next to the Vietnam National Convention Center, Hanoi Museum - one of the important workarts of the great festival inaugurated 1000 years of Thang Long - Hanoi - is where presents the past and present of Vietnam with thousands of artifacts related to the capital, thousands of years of civilization.

With more than 50.000m2 area, this is a largest and modernest museum in the country. From a distance, Hanoi Museum, impressed by the unique architectural design, was conceived as an inverted pyramid.

The museum has six floors, including four floating floors and two basements, the floor area gradually scaled down from top to bottom.

 Visitors can reach the upper levels by elevator or by stairs are designed into a spiral ramp.

spiral stairs

The first floor area was designed as a temporary place to display some of the pottery shops selling souvenirs.

The second floor is a small collection with Hanoi natural areas,  Phung Nguyen grave, boat graves, the Dong Son culture and other pictures of Hanoi.

Dried leaf samples and photographs of every crocodiles that went into painting poetic music. Sample of dried flowers, leaves, milk flowers - sexy flowers are passionate about an immense Hanoi's autumn or suggestions about beautiful melody in songs. In addition, West Lake shrimp samples, fish samples associated with known famous specialties of Hanoi  - La Vong fried fish, West Lake shrimp cakes. .

The museum displays many ceramics in different periods of the history.

Dong Son bronze drum - a cultural symbol of Vietnamese people

A corner of Hanoi museum

Visiting Hanoi museum, tourists will have the opportunity to admire the antique things collected from around the country.

Let's up the third floor of the museum - the collection of space artifacts show artists' heart with their love for the capital- where displays documents and exhibits by organizations and individuals to donate, etc.

The fourth floor contains conference rooms, research rooms, offices and the library. With a lot of pottery such as bowls, vases ... or production tools, canoe found in Tien Giang and Ca Mau are on displayed on this floor.

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