Vietnam Museum of Ethnology.

Vietnam Museum of Ethnology is a unit under Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. Vietnam Museum of Ethnology is both a research centre and a public museum exhibiting the ethnic groups of Vietnam. 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. The museum also serves to guide research, conservation, and technology that are specific to the work of an ethnographic museum.

This museum has exhibits, artifacts, and informative resources, all of which shed light on the traditions, customs, and daily routines of the nation's 54 recognized ethnic groups. There are both inside and outside exhibits.

The museum's collection comprises more than 15,000 artifacts, 2,190 slides, 42,000 photographs, 237 audiotapes, and 373 videotapes.

We lunched at the Truc Lam Restaurant in the museum grounds and then took another thrill filled taxi ride back to our hotel in an even smaller taxi.

We met at six for our first briefing. The welcome dinner was about a ten minute walk away in a restaurant called Mother's Kitchen.Read more