MuseumWeek 2016 ended after 7 days with the active participation of over 3000 museums worldwide. At the end of the event, 149,896 images and video clips across 7 themes - Secrets, People, Architecture, Heritage, Future, Zoom, and Love - had been tweeted, with 518,359 re-tweets.
By 9.00 a.m on March 31, 2016, 3000 museums had joined #MuseumWeek on Twitter. In just over four days, across four designated themes - Secrets, People, Architecture and Heritage - 86,253 tweets and 263,674 retweets had been shared by museums across the world, including images and short video clips.
“Picturing Autism Vietnam” is the title of a photo exhibition on people with autism in Vietnam and the world which is on at the Vietnamese Women’s Museum. This event is part of the activities in response to the first “Vietnam Autism Awareness Day” – April 2nd, 2016, jointly organized by Vietnam Autism Network (VAN), affiliated to the Vietnam Federation on Disability (VFD) and other organizations.
Bảo tàng Phụ nữ Việt Nam sẽ cùng với gần 3000 bảo tàng trên toàn thế giới tham gia “Tuần lễ Bảo tàng 2016” (Museum Week 2016) được phát động trên twitter - một trong những mạng xã hội phổ biến nhất thế giới.
Picturing Autism Vietnam is part of Photographer Debbie Rasiel’s journey across disparate landscapes, language barriers, and cultural divides to document the lives of families with living autism. In this exhibition, a collective portrait emerges of families and caregivers living with autism, loving their children, and continuing on with their lives.
French photographer Réhahn Croquevielle has presented his world-renowned photograph of a smiling old lady to the Vietnamese Women’s Museum to mark the occasion of International Women's Day.
The opening ceremony of the exhibition "Stories of Resilience: Women living with disasters" was held at the Vietnamese Women's Museum on March 7th 2016. The exhibition is part of a project that focuses on enhancing the capacity of women in disaster risk reduction adaptation. The project is being implemented by the Vietnam Women's Union (VWU) with support from UN Women.
40 outstanding drawings from the "Gender Equality: Picture it" Comic and Cartoon Contest are on exhibition at the Vietnamese Women's Museum, between March 1st and March 10th, 2016. The contest was organized by the Embassy of Belgium, the Belgian Development Agency (BTC) in Vietnam and UN Women Vietnam, in cooperation with the Vietnamese Women's Union, with the aim of eliminating sexual violence as well as other forms of violence against women and girls.
After a year of careful preparation, the Vietnamese Women's Museum is ready to launch its new audio guide tour. From February 1st, 2016, visitors will have the chance to try the audio guide for free in 3 different languages: Vietnamese, English and French.
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.
