Xuan Hinh exhibits his company round Dao Mau Museum. Video courtesy of Xuan Hinh
Positioned inside a 50-year-old orchard, the museum is encircled by a 20-year-old wall coated by creeping fig timber. Throughout building, the architects and building workforce rigorously constructed partitions across the present timber to protect the pure environment as a lot as attainable.
To create the museum, Hinh, 64, spent 5 years to gather greater than 6 million items of real historic bricks and tiles from round 500 households throughout Vietnam.
As a former tile maker in his youthful days, Hinh bought the inspiration of recycling the supplies whereas witnessing the demolition of quite a few historic previous homes throughout the Vietnam’s expansive urbanization course of.
The museum options altar rooms devoted to the goddesses, and a sacred shrine known as “Uong Nuoc Nho Nguon” (Keep in mind the supply while you drink your water).
Moreover, there may be additionally an artifact gallery housing a wealthy assortment of historic gadgets: Dao Mau work, poetic panel couplets, costumes, and straw mats.
“I’ve collected these things for a few years, with the hope that youthful generations will admire the cultural heritage of our nation,” Hinh mentioned.
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Xuan Hinh in a single nook of the museum. Picture courtesy of Xuan Hinh |
The museum additionally boasts a library, stocked with Dao Mau literature and conventional folks artwork assets. Hinh mentioned he plans to host occasions at which skilled artisans can move on their craft to underprivileged gifted kids, and guarantee cultural continuity and the event of conventional historic Vietnamese abilities.
Past the sacred areas dedicated to Dao Mau’s mom goddesses, Xuan has additionally devoted areas within the museum to honor up to date Vietnamese ladies. In a devoted space, he displays statues and objects related to their lives, comparable to mills, pots, pans, and sieves.
The museum, dwelling to ponds and conventional clay pots, additionally encompasses a residing house and kitchen for his household.
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The museum is constructed inside of an orchard. Picture courtesy of Xuan Hinh |
In 2023, the Dao Mau Museum was ranked among the many high 14 greatest initiatives of the yr by Italy’s famend structure and design journal Domus.
Architect Nguyen Ha, designer of the mission, was honored with the Moira Gemmill Award, which acknowledges promising architects beneath 45 years previous worldwide.
Dao Mau, a Vietnamese folks faith venerating the mom goddesses, has been an integral a part of Xuan Hinh’s life. Through the years, he has been invited to carry out at many Dao Mau rituals and festivals. Its rituals embody ceremonies like “len dong” (trance ceremony), singing and festivals.
Vibrant cultural expressions are demonstrated on the pageant, together with costumes, music, dance, and folks performances, reflecting Vietnamese heritage that has been developed and handed down for generations.
In 2016, the standard worshiping of the Mom Goddess of the Three Palaces was acknowledged by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage.