52 ethnic groups in Vietnam!!!
Vietnam Museum of Ethnology
Why locals love it
Vietnam Museum of Ethnology is a unit under Vietnam Academy of Scocial Sciences. Vietnam Museum of Ethnology is both a research centre and a public museum exhibiting the ethnic groups of Vietnam. The mission of the Museum is scientific research, collection, documentation, conservation, exhibition and preserving the cultural and historic.
Why you should visit it
Hands down the best museum in Vietnam. We’ve been to a few in HCMC and Hanoi and we’re quite disappointed by the labels and exhibits. The museum of ethnology has fantastic descriptions, is well laid out, has a lot of varied artefacts and videos and is well worth a visit. Fantastic recreations of minority houses out the back of the museum.
Special tip
Take the 14 bus from the old quarter for 7k vnd. Took about 3 hours to see the whole exhibit. Skip the Ho Chi Minh Museum and go here instead.
Mon: 09:00-17:30