Xuan Hinh reveals his visitors round Dao Mau Museum. Video courtesy of Xuan Hinh
Situated inside a 50-year-old orchard, the museum is encircled by a 20-year-old wall coated by creeping fig bushes. Throughout building, the architects and building workforce rigorously constructed partitions across the present bushes to protect the pure environment as a lot as potential.
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 through the Vietnam’s expansive urbanization course of.
The museum options altar rooms devoted to the goddesses, and a sacred shrine referred to as “Uong Nuoc Nho Nguon” (Keep in mind the supply while you drink your water).
Moreover, there’s additionally an artifact gallery housing a wealthy assortment of historical gadgets: Dao Mau work, poetic panel couplets, costumes, and straw mats.
“I’ve collected this stuff for a few years, with the hope that youthful generations will admire the cultural heritage of our nation,” Hinh stated.
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Xuan Hinh in a single nook of the museum. Photograph courtesy of Xuan Hinh |
The museum additionally boasts a library, stocked with Dao Mau literature and conventional folks artwork assets. Hinh stated he plans to host occasions at which skilled artisans can go on their craft to underprivileged gifted youngsters, 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 modern Vietnamese girls. In a devoted space, he reveals statues and objects related to their lives, reminiscent of mills, pots, pans, and sieves.
The museum, house to ponds and conventional clay pots, additionally incorporates a residing area and kitchen for his household.
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The museum is constructed inside of an orchard. Photograph courtesy of Xuan Hinh |
In 2023, the Dao Mau Museum was ranked among the many prime 14 finest initiatives of the yr by Italy’s famend structure and design journal Domus.
Architect Nguyen Ha, designer of the venture, was honored with the Moira Gemmill Award, which acknowledges promising architects underneath 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. Over time, he has been invited to carry out at many Dao Mau rituals and festivals. Its rituals embrace 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 normal worshiping of the Mom Goddess of the Three Palaces was acknowledged by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage.