The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology ( vi, Bảo tàng Dân tộc học Việt Nam) is a museum in

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, which focuses on the 54 officially recognised ethnic groups in Vietnam. It is located on a property in the Cầu Giấy District, about 8 km from the city center. The Museum is a member of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences - an academic institution of the Vietnamese Government. A second exhibition building was open in 2013 and has a focus on Southeast Asian cultures and peoples.VME Museum History
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History

The proposal for the museum was officially approved on 14 December 1987. Construction lasted from 1987 to 1995, and it was opened to the public on 12 November 1997. The budget for construction of the museum was US$1.9 million, with an additional US$285,000 allocated for acquisition of artifacts. The exhibition building was designed by the architect Ha Duc Linh, a member of the Tày ethnic group, in the shape of a Đông Sơn drum, and the interior architecture was designed by the French architect Véronique Dollfus. The second exhibition building focusing on Southeast Asian ethnology was designed in a

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shape and was open in 2013.

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External links

Vietnam Museum of Ethnology
- official site

- An introduction of the Vietnamese Museum of Ethnology. Museums in Hanoi Ethnographic museums in Asia {{Vietnam-museum-stub