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Vietnamese Women's Museum

VerdictOur pick for an awkward Hanoi day: open daily with no lunch break, and the audio guide speaks six languages.

A four-storey museum on women in Vietnamese family life, history and fashion.

White multi-storey Vietnamese Women's Museum with coloured window panels, behind a fence of thin metal rods and two large trees
Photo: Bao Tang Phu Nu Viet Nam 36 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
On this page
  1. Intro
  2. Getting there
  3. Hours & fees
  4. Nearby
  5. Questions
  6. Sources

The Vietnamese Women's Museum is a four-storey building at 36 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, south of Hoan Kiem Lake. The government established it on 10 January 1987, and it opened on 20 October 1995. It closed for redevelopment and refurbishment from 2006 to 2010. The Vietnam Women's Union funds and runs it.

The museum's street front, a wall of green glass panels printed with portraits of women in traditional dress
Image: Vuong Tri Binh / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

The permanent displays follow three themes: Women in Family, Women in History and Women's Fashion. The museum's audio guide tells close to 60 stories across those three themes, in Vietnamese, English, French, Japanese, Korean and Spanish.

A display of a woman's dark costume, a basket and a woven cloth hung behind, with a small screen playing video
Image: Vuong Tri Binh / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Getting there

Measured in a straight line on map coordinates, the museum is about 0.6 km from Hoan Kiem Lake and about 1.1 km from Hanoi railway station. Noi Bai International Airport is about 22 km away in a straight line; the road is longer.

Hours and fees

WhenHours
Every day, Monday to Sunday8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

The museum's website does not publish ticket prices. Two travel sites we checked, VinWonders (in an article updated for 2026) and Vietnam Discovery, both give VND 40,000 for an adult. They disagree on student and child rates, so we leave those out. Check the price at the desk.

The museum also has an outdoor café serving coffee, smoothies and light snacks.

Mannequins in traditional costumes standing in a row against a yellow wall
Image: Vuong Tri Binh / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Our take

When the rest of your Hanoi day doesn't line up, this is the museum we'd reach for. It opens every day of the week with no lunch break, and the audio guide covers six languages, so you aren't relying on the wall labels alone.

Nearby

Questions travelers ask

Is it worth it if you only have a day or two? Under a photo post from the museum, one commenter wrote:

"Well worth a visit especially if you don't have time to travel and visit the larger Museum of Ethnology"

u/fritobugger on r/VietNam

Is it only for women? In a thread on Hanoi must-sees, one reply:

"I found the women's museum to be fascinating (I'm a guy) and was really impressed by it."

u/jayfornight on r/VietNam

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Sources

Checked in October 2026.Show all 9 sources
  • baotangphunu.org.vn. Open every day 8:00 to 17:00; 36 Ly Thuong Kiet.
  • baotangphunu.org.vn. Outdoor café with coffee, smoothies, light snacks.
  • en.wikipedia.org. Four-storey building; established 10 January 1987; opened 20 October 1995; closed for redevelopment and refurbishment 2006 to 2010.
  • vinwonders.com. Adult VND 40,000 (VinWonders, 2026 article); student and child rates differ from source 7.
  • vietnamdiscovery.com. Adult VND 40,000 (Vietnam Discovery).
  • wikidata.org. Museum coordinates 21.02346, 105.85162.
  • wikidata.org, page 2. About 0.6 km south of Hoan Kiem Lake (0.61 km; lower latitude), 1.1 km from Hanoi railway station (1.12 km), 22 km from Noi Bai (22.47 km).
  • ourairports.com. About 0.6 km south of Hoan Kiem Lake (0.61 km; lower latitude), 1.1 km from Hanoi railway station (1.12 km), 22 km from Noi Bai (22.47 km).
  • wikidata.org, page 2. Hoa Lo Prison about 0.6 km (0.58 km), History Museum about 0.9 km (0.85 km).