The temporary exhibition is rotated every quarter of the year, or at least twice a year. Our new perspective is the museum is a source of ever renewing knowledge. On the one hand, researchers of the VME must raise the questions, solve the problems, find out the reasons, conditions and outcomes of social phenomena, of the relationships between man and man, between man and artifacts, and between man and the environment. Besides publications of catalogues and monographs, ethnographic studies of the VME are also published in the audio and video forms such as CD, photograph collections, audio cassettes. These audio and video products aim at providing various groups of audience such as pupils, students, visitors and researchers in the country and abroad with overall and in-depth understandings of traditions, cultures, and contemporary life of ethnic groups in Vietnam.
Ethnographic films has an important role in the museum.
These are only some pilot projects. In order to meet the requirements of a scientific film, an ethnographer must conduct an in-depth research and arrive at thorough explanations of every details in the film he makes, including the custom and habit, action and behavior of every member of the cultures in reality. Monographs may accompany with the texts for ethnographic films. We are aiming at contributing to the better understanding of ethnic cultures that are popularized in the mass media. Education is one of the most important function of the museum.