The Vietnam Women’s Museum is located in Ly Thuong Kiet Street, the center of Hanoi, just 500 meters from Hoan Kiem Lake and the Old Quarter. This is the most ancient street in the capital city, with many French-style buildings, foreign embassies, big hotels and government offices.
The Vietnam Women’s Museum was established in 1987, under the Vietnam Women’s Union. It is a gender museum with functions of research, preservation, and display of tangible and intangible historical and cultural heritages of Vietnamese women and Vietnam Women’s Union. It is also a centre for cultural exchange between Vietnamese and international women for the goal of equality, development and peace.
Since its inauguration in 1995, the Vietnam Women’s Museum has successfully exhibited numerous exhibitions, serving hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese and international guests each year. The museum has also developed a collection of over 25,000 objects and artifacts related to Vietnamese women.
In late 2010, Vietnamese Women’s Museum reopened to public its permanent exhibit after four years of upgrading and refurbishing with three themes:
– Women In Family
– Women In History
– Women’s Fashion
The content of the new display is presented in a scientific way, beautiful with the modern equipment, making it become very unique and impressive. At the same time, Vietnamese Women’s Museum has moved from a cultural and historical museum to a gender museum with its rich identity, providing much information on cultural traditions and issues of social and contemporary life. It is a tribute to the role Vietnam’s women have played in history and continue to play in contemporary life.
With incessant efforts in improving its content, quality and images, it is hoped that Vietnamese and international visitors to Vietnamese Women’s Museum will have special experiences. In 2012, Vietnamese Women’s Museum was honoured to be ranked “One of the best attractions in Hanoi in 2012” by TripAdvisor – one of the most prestigious world tourist websites. In 2013, TripAdvisor continued to include Vietnamese Women’s Museum in the top 25 most interesting museums in Asia. “Worth a visit – touching stories” is the message TripAdvisor wants to send to readers when it describes Vietnamese Women’s Museum.
In response to the sentiments and love by visitors, VMW is always making further improvements to become an international-level museum, a tourist destination worth visiting by domestic and international tourists.
