Nam Dinh Textile Museum
Nam Dinh Textile Museum
Nam Dinh Textile Museum
Nam Dinh Textile Museum
A unique industrial complex telling the history of the Vietnamese textile industry and the people's revolutionary struggle.
Nam Dinh
Museum
History & Culture
The Nam Dinh Textile and National Costume Museum is a significant cultural and historical site opened in 2012 on the basis of one of the oldest and largest textile factories in Indochina. Visiting this museum allows you to trace the evolution of tailoring in Vietnam and get acquainted with the unique heroic past of the factory workers during the war.
- Duration
2–3 hours
- Admission
Free
- Languages
Vietnamese, English
What to know
The museum occupies an area of 1.2 hectares on the site of a factory founded by the French in 1898. The red brick buildings have been carefully restored in the style of early 20th-century French architecture.
What to see:
- Exhibitions dedicated to the development of textiles and national costumes.
- Tools and machinery used by generations of Vietnamese workers.
- War relics: evidence of the factory's operation during the war (tunnels, trenches) and the motto "the enemy fights by day, we produce by night."
- Personal belongings and artifacts related to Ho Chi Minh's visits.
On site
- Getting there
90 km from Hanoi (~1 hour)
- Address
5 Hoàng Hoa Thám, Nam Định
- Rules
No food or drinks
- Photos
By permission