| The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, located at No.1 Nguyen Van Huyen street, about 8 kilometers from the city’s downtown, is the largest and undoubtedly the most interesting museum in Hanoi and Vietnam. |
.JPG)
| Rong house, a variation of stilt houses unique to the Central Highlands in Việt Nam. |
| Visitors can learn information detailing traditional Vietnamese ways of life, from religious events to the symbolic rituals of all the Vietnamese ethnic groups. |
| Visitors play ca kheo (walking on stilts), a traditional game of Vietnam. |
| The museum displays over 15,000 artifacts including photographs and other audiovisual materials. Its indoor exhibition space can be viewed via a virtual tour which displays traits of the Viet, Muong, Tho, Chut, Tav, Thai, Ka Dai, H’Mong-Dao, Tang, San Dui, Ngai, Mon-Khmer, Nam-Dao, Cham, Hoa and Khmer ethnic groups. |
| All exhibited materials, labels and display signs are translated into French and English. |
| Foreign visitors are interested in reading information about Vietnamese water puppet, a traditional art and one of the most indigenous cultural traits and folk arts with over 1000 years old. |
| Children enjoy keo co (tug of war), a traditional game of Vietnam. |
| Ethnology Museum provides a wide range of traditional Vietnamese ways of life, providing a rich tapestry of the culture melting pot existing in Vietnam. |
| Visitors are welcome to browse part of the vast research on offer at this public museum, which is also a center for ethnographic research. |
| On November 12, 1997, on the occasion of the summit of French-speaking nations in Hanoi, the museum was inaugurated in the presence of the then Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Thi Binh and |
| The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology was established on October 24, 1995. |
