Vietnam’s first ao dai (women’s traditional tunic) museum opened in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 9 Wednesday.
The private museum, located in the
20,000-square meter Long Thuan Garden House in the suburban district,
features 500 unique dresses dating back to 1930.
The collection includes ones wore by most
famous Vietnamese women in the arts, politics and military, such as
ones donated by Ton Nu Thi Ninh, who is the former ambassador of Vietnam
to the EU and former vice-chair of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs
Committee. Some were worn by Ninh, her mother-in-law and her
daughter-in-law.
Other highlights are empresses’ dress called phuong bao (phoenix dress) and sets of ao dai owned
by Nguyen Thi Dinh, Vietnam’s first female major general to serve in
the Vietnam People's Army, former deputy president Nguyen Thi Binh, and
famous senior cai luong artists Kim Cuong and Bay Nam.
In addition, the museum, owned by fashion
designer Si Hoang, also has 3,000 photos of the tunic and other ao
dai-related artifacts.
Ao dai designer Hoang, a former
lecturer at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Architecture, initiated
the museum project, located on 206/19/30 Long Thuan Street, District
9, in 2006 though.
His garden was built four years earlier
as a hub for arts exhibitions, fashion shows, gastronomy events and
eco-tourism, thanks to its open air arrangement including lotus ponds,
fishing ponds, orchards, old wooden houses, camping space and art
installations.
Tickets to the museum are priced at
VND100,000 for tourists, 30,000 for the disabled, and free for elderly
and children as the investor aims to promote Vietnamese dress culture
and traditional arts to local students.
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(Source: ThanhNienNews)
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