Museum of Anthropology

General introduction

The Museum of Anthropology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, is the first university museum in the block of social sciences and humanities schools in the country.

The mission of the Museum is to research, preserve and multiply the resources of heritage, culture, cultural history to serve the cause of national development, and at the same time contribute to training high-quality human resources in the field of social sciences and humanities. The Museum is a unit that directly participates in training and serves training and scientific research through its own specific activities such as a special type of lecture hall that combines theory with reality/practice to most effectively promote the abundant knowledge resources, rich experience of the team of leading researchers and a large number of young intellectuals; and to exploit to the maximum the facilities and scientific documents accumulated over the past decades.

The Museum of Anthropology performs the following main functions:

• Collecting, preserving, restoring, reconstructing artifacts, specimens, and collecting artifacts of traditional and modern Vietnamese material culture;
• Collect and preserve in various forms traditional and contemporary intangible cultural heritages and assets for research and training purposes;
• Display collections of artifacts and specimens in various forms, using traditional methods and modern techniques;
• Socialize and internationalize museum activities, exploit specimen collections in teaching, research and scientific cooperation;
• Research topics related to the fields of history, culture, conservation, and museums.
• Traditional Room Manager for the Museum of Anthropology

Manager Assoc.Prof.Dr. Dang Hong Son hongsonk45@yahoo.com

Typical activities

Display

The Museum of Anthropology organizes many forms of exhibitions applying traditional methods combined with modern technical applications:

• The regular exhibition of a university museum, in addition to meeting the general standards of museum exhibitions, also has specific purposes. To achieve the purpose of both displaying cultural values ​​and serving research and training, museum artifacts are arranged in two types of exhibitions: closed exhibitions and open exhibitions, in which open exhibitions are a unique display method of the Museum of Anthropology.
• Thematic exhibitions: For a teaching museum, thematic exhibitions with modern display techniques, original documents and artifacts combined with illustrations in many forms are equally important as regular exhibitions. The themes of these exhibitions closely follow the research and training content of the School and promptly respond to current topics of the country. Typical thematic exhibitions: "Dien Bien Phu - Historical rendezvous", "Vietnam's seas and islands", "Truong Sa, Hoang Sa - The country at the forefront", "My school", "Dialogue with the heritage of terraced fields"...
• Virtual exhibition: To partly overcome the limitations due to the narrow fixed exhibition area and with the aim of connecting artifacts with specific historical and cultural contexts, from 2012 to present, the Museum of Anthropology has implemented the "Virtual Museum" project, helping to expand, modernize and change the way of displaying and disseminating information about real museum collections in a more updated, faster and complete way.

Collecting artifacts

The Museum of Anthropology was built on the basis of a number of artifacts from the French School of the Far East (French Republic) and a number of archaeological collections collected by lecturers and students of the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of History for many years, from the Pre-, Early- and Historic periods. In addition to archaeological collections, over the past ten years, the Museum has focused on collecting ethnological and Han-Nom artifacts, Vietnamese culture... Through various forms of collection including donation campaigns, trade exchanges, exchanges, or through fieldwork..., the number of artifacts of the Museum has continuously increased in both quantity and quality.

Experiment, post-field processing, scientific research

At the Museum of Anthropology, artifacts from excavations, archaeological fieldwork, ethnographic and Vietnamese cultural collections have been systematically and scientifically processed. After processing, artifacts have been returned to local museums according to the Law on Cultural Heritage, and some fragments and collected artifacts have been added to the Museum's sample collections. In addition, the Museum also actively creates conditions for students and researchers to come to study and live.

Contact information

Floor 3-4, Building D, University of Social Sciences and Humanities - VNU

No. 336 Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi

Phone: (024) 3558 9744

E-mail:btnhxhnv@gmail.com

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