Hanoi Kids Tours

In the system of national museums of the country, Vietnam Fine Arts Museum is considered as one of the crucial museum in maintaining and promoting the treasure of cultural, artistic heritages of Vietnamese ethnic communities.

Visiting the Museum, viewer can understand the entire history of Vietnam fine arts through the collections, exhibits that are displayed here.

Fine Arts Museum exhibits approximately 10.000 art works in 16 showrooms segmented according to the following division and arranged chronologically.

-   Ethnic minorities
-   Primitive eras-Neolithic Age, Bronze Age, and Paleolithic Age
-   Feudalism-11th to 18th centuries
-   Ancient sculpture-outstanding works from the 11th to 19th centuries
-   Technological fine arts
-   Fine arts
-   Fine arts before the August 1945 Revolution
-   Resistance against French troops (1940- 1954)
-   Folk painting
-   Apart from displaying the wide range of stylish art collections, Fine Arts Museum in Hanoi exhibits several fine art pieces like ancient stone sculpture, pieces from the Bronze Age, antique pottery, ethnic minority painting and lacquer painting.
- The classical structure with an authentic oriental touch, which is famous as the Fine Arts Museum in Hanoi was previously used as French Ministry of Information.

The Museum is attracting a great number of domestic and foreign visitors thanks to not only the exhibition content but also the artistic architecture of the building. It was an old structure, built in the 1930s by the French, reserved for the French colonial rulers’ daughters throughout the Indochina who came to Hanoi to study.

In 1962, the government requested the Ministry of Culture to transform the building from the western architecture into a Vietnamese appearance with ornamental details from the traditional architecture of communal house and fit for exhibiting works of fine arts