Huong River Museum of Ancient Pottery is a non-state museum, located at 120 Nguyen Phuc Nguyen street, Hue city. The ancient pottery artifacts have been collected by Prof. Dr. Thai Kim Lan and her brother Thai Nguyen Ba, the late painter, for more than 30 years.
The pots, urns, jars from the pre-Sa Huynh - Sa Huynh, Cham Pa, Dai Viet periods... salvaged from the bed of Hương River are the embodiment of culture and history.
According to Prof. Dr. Thai Kim Lan, thousands of ceramic artifacts fished out from the Huong River have created a shape, reflected the history of the land. These artifacts will tell the stories about themselves, enabling us to better understand the cultural and historical value of the ancient capital. At a spacious garden house in Kim Long ward, visitors have a chance to admire thousands of potteries picked up from the Huong river as well as other places. These valuable antiques date back to the 17th, 18th and 19th century.
Huong River Museum of Ancient Pottery is the only museum across the country where artifacts found from rivers in a narrow geographical space (Thua Thien Hue province) were on display. Located in the area of 700m2, the museum is currently home to nearly 5.000 artifacts, mainly picked up from the Huong river. They date back to several historical periods and cultures such as Cham, Sa Huynh, prehistory, protohistory, Le So, etc as well as those produced at Phuoc Tich ancient village, My Xuyen ancient village…