For the past 5 years, the Vietnamese Women's Museum has run a charity project named "Warm Winter" to donate food and clothes to poor women and children across Vietnam. This year the project was held in My Thanh Village in Bac Kan Province. There are 220 poor and near-poor households in this area, with the majority of them belonging to the Yao and Tay ethnic groups.
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Announcement
On the occasion of Lunar New Year 2016, the Vietnamese Women's Museum is close from Saturday, February 6th to Sunday, February 14th 2016 (Lunar Calendar from December 28th to January 7th).
Từ ngày 15/02/2016 (mùng 8/1 âm lịch) Bảo tàng mở cửa phục vụ như thường lệ.
Trân trọng!
Painting Exhibition “Vietnam Through My Eyes”
40 paintings by Soraya Runckel expressing the beauty of Vietnam and its people will be displayed in the temporary exhibition room of the Vietnamese Women’s Museum from December 8th to December 10th 2015.
Comic and Cartoon Contest launched to promote gender equality
On the afternoon of 24th November 2015, Belgium Embassy in conjunction with UN Women in Vietnam, the Vietnamese Women's Museum, and Thai Airlines, jointly host a press conference for the launching of a Comic and Cartoon Contest titled "Gender Equality. Picture it”. The conference has already attracted the attention of many students, artists, sponsors as well as non-governmental organizations and communications agencies.
“I learn a precious lesson after the tour around Vietnamese Women’s Museum”
This was said by Mrs. Bekk Mariá - President of National Assembly of Hungary's Wife on her private tour around the Vietnamese Women's Museum on November 9th, 2015. The place was one of several primary destinations she chose to visit during her stay in Hanoi. Here she was deeply impressed with the overall exhibit.
Spaces for book-lovers
The Book Fair has become an annual event with the cooperation of the Vietnamese Women’s Museum, Women Publishing House, Kim Dong Publishing House, and Youth Publishing House. This is the 8th times Vietnamese Women’s Museum and these publishing houses together organize book fair for book-lovers in Ha Noi. Autumn Book Fair 2015 promises to bring many interesting choices for readers.
ICME 2015 Annual Conference held in Hanoi, Vietnam
In 2 days October 25th and 26th 2015, the ICME (International Committee of Museum of Ethnography) 2015 Annual Conference “Museum and Communities: Diversity, Dialogue, Collaboration” was taken place at the Vietnamese Museum of Ethnology.
Exhibition “Vietnamese Women – 70 Years of Development together with the Country”
“Vietnamese Women – 70 Years of Development together with the Country” is held by Vietnam Women’s Union within the large Exhibition entitled “Socio-economic Achievements in 2015” organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism.
Museum tour inspires Dr. Frazier, a female American historian
“Thank you for the wonderful tour of the Vietnamese Women’s Museum, which exhibits the lives and history of Vietnamese women. The photos and stories of women during the French and American wars were quite moving.” - this was shared by Dr. Jessica Marie Frazier, a lecturer, and historian at Rhode Island University, after visiting the museum’s permanent exhibitions.
Vietnamese Women Museum receives “Vietnam top destinations” award
The Vietnamese Women’s Museum was one of five organizations to receive the award “Vietnam Top Attraction”, presented by the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism during the Vietnam Tourism Awards (2014) ceremony on July 8th, 2015.