(Baonghean.vn) - The Countryside Museum is the first private museum about the countryside in Vietnam and was awarded a Record Certificate by the Vietnam Records Center in 2014.
This museum is located in an area of nearly 6000 m2, in Binh Di village, Giao Thinh commune, Giao Thuy district, Nam Dinh province. Binh Di people also call this "General Kien's Museum" or "Miss Khieu's Museum" because this museum was built by the hands and aspirations of Major General Hoang Kien (Vice President of the Truong Son - Ho Chi Minh Trail Tradition Association of Vietnam) and his wife, teacher Ngo Thi Khieu. It was Ms. Khieu who discussed with her husband to sell the land granted in Hanoi to return to her hometown to build this museum. With the help of many people, especially the government and people of Giao Thinh commune, the Countryside Museum was officially inaugurated in December 2012.
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| The 4-storey house is a place to display artifacts about the daily life and work of farmers in the North. |
Coming to the Countryside Museum, we will encounter the peaceful countryside right from the entrance with hibiscus fences, fish ponds, models recreating the daily life and work of farmers: rice fields, plowmen, and hoemen. The museum was established with the purpose of recreating and preserving the countryside, a place to collect and display thousands of objects and tools of labor and production associated with the lives of rural people in the North. Many of the artifacts here have become "rare" today.
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| As soon as entering the museum, visitors can easily see the scene of farmers plowing recreated. |
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| The poor farmer's house was recreated, attracting many visitors. |
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| The landlord's house is designed with tiled roof and spacious brick yard. |
The most unique are the house models: poor farmers with thatched houses, mud walls, and thatched roofs, middle farmers' houses with thatched walls and sedge roofs, landlord houses with tiled roofs and spacious brick yards, with ironwood benches, sofas, etc.
In addition, the Museum also has a 4-storey building that displays artifacts related to the culture of the Red River Delta rice fields (farming tools, bronze collection, antique lamps, ceramics, etc.), and a book library.
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| The museum also preserves many hundreds of years of farming tools associated with the production process of Northern farmers. |
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| Many unique farming tools have now become rare in modern life. |
The museum is also a place where many types of trees are grown, typical of the countryside. Coming here, visitors can also enjoy or buy as gifts many dishes, drinks, or food made entirely by hand by the farmers right on the spot: making dong vermicelli, making gai cake, making sticky rice, making wine...
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| Many tourists are fascinated by the simple, rustic objects of old rural life. |
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| Dry yeast to ferment wine. |
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| The cellophane noodles are made entirely by hand by farmers right on the spot. |
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| The peaceful atmosphere in the museum is a tourist attraction. |
Many groups of visitors who have come to the Countryside Museum share the feeling of returning to a peaceful time long gone. Young people also come here to imagine the life of farmers in the North in centuries past…
Article, photo: TV
