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The Việt Nam Women's Museum organized a ceremony to receive materials donated by Nancy Hollander, a member of the American women's delegation that met with women from Việt Nam's two regions in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1965. At that time, lawyer Nancy Hollander was a student and the youngest delegation member. She saved more than 450 documents and artefacts, including letters she received, reports, her notebook, books, articles, magazines, etc., which record this historical landmark in the relationship between American women, the Việt Nam Women's Union (in the North) and the Women's Union for Liberation of South Việt Nam.

In response to the month of action against domestic violence launched by UNWomen globally and the project "Propagandizing, training, advocating, and supporting women in solving some women-related social issues in the period of 2017-2027" led by Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU), Vietnamese Women’s Museum (VWM) opened the exhibition “Behind closed doors” on the afternoon of November 23rd. This exhibition reflects the reality of domestic violence as well as the efforts of VWU in supporting the victims.

On 24th November 2018, UN Women in Vietnam, Vietnamese Women’s Museum, United Nations International School of Hanoi and other partners jointly organized the event “Speak up for gender equality” at the theatre of United Nations International School of Hanoi.

On the occasion of Vietnamese Women's Day on October 20th, the Swedish Embassy, UNDP, UN Women and other NGOs connected with the Vietnamese Women's Museum to organize a training program within the framework of the initiative called #Wikigap.

In the morning of October 11th, to celebrate 7th International Day of Girl child initiated by United Nations, Australia Volunteers International AVI in collaboration with Australian Embassy and Vietnam Women's Museum organized a morning tea program in order to raise awareness of gender equality as well as child protection.

On the morning of October 16th, the Vietnamese Women’s Museum, the Heritage Center for scientists and scholars of Vietnam, and the Vietnam Association for Intellectual Women collaborated to organize the opening ceremony of an exhibition titled “ Forever Passionate”.

On October 5th 2018, the Vietnamese Women's Museum (VWM) was honored to receive artifacts owned by former military engineers of the Steel Brigade during the Vietnam war.

"Rethink" introduces to visitors 100 artworks made purely from plastics including clothes, paintings and ornaments, as well as themed photos about the habit of using plastic bags in our daily lives. Displayed at the exhibition are artworks of 15 students from several secondary schools in Hanoi.