The Hanoi Museum in Vietnam
By: Meinhard von Gerkan, Nikolaus Goetze
Contributors: Goetze, Nikolaus, 1958- author; Jaeger, Falk, writer of supplementary textual content; Bredt, Marcus, photographer
Publisher: Jovis Verlag GmbH
Published: 2015
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 91
ISBN-13: 9783868593303
Subjects: Museums; National museums; Buildings, structures; Bảo tàng lịch sử Việt Nam (Hanoi, Vietnam)
Description: As part of the thousand-year celebrations of the Vietnamese capital Hanoi, the Hanoi Museum was inaugurated. The architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners had won the international competition for the building in 2005 and realized it within two years. The 30,000-square-meter museum is integrated into a specially designed park with large water surfaces, in which visitors can view exhibits from Hanoi's history and replicated traditional Vietnamese villages as soon as they enter the museum landscape. From this park, there are accesses to the museum at all four points of the compass. In the interior of the square building, a circular open area in the foyer connects the entrance level with the three upper exhibition levels. These protrude outwards increasingly towards the top like tiered terraces, forming an inverted pyramid. For visitors this creates the impression of floating over the landscape when looking out of the window.
Notes: "Autoren und Fotografen, Falk Jaeger, Prof. Dr., Autor und Journalist, Marcus Bredt, Fotograf = Authors and photographers, Falk Jaeger, author and journalist, Marcus Bredt, photographer"--Page 89.

Text in German and English.