Vietnam National Museum of History
Archeological museum in Hanoi, Vietnam
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The Vietnam National Museum of History (Vietnamese: Viện Bảo tàng Lịch sử Việt Nam; French: Musée National d'Histoire du Viêt Nam) is in the Hoan Kiem district of Hanoi, Vietnam. The museum building was originally a museum of the French School of the Far East during French colonial rule. It was acquired by the government of North Vietnam in 1958 and the collections were expanded to cover eastern arts and national history.
The museum highlights Vietnam's prehistory (roughly 40,000 years ago to 3,000 years ago) up to the August 1945 Revolution and the founding of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Its collections have over 200,000 items, arranged in four major sections.
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