Museum sights in Vientiane

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   Lao National Museum

   • Vientiane, Laos
   • Sights › Museum

   With a limited collection of historical and revolutionary exhibits, the Lao National Museum will never be confused with the Louvre. But it does serve to sum up the country’s ongoing struggle to come to grips with its own identity, so it’s worth a look.

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   Lao National Culture Hall

   • Vientiane, Laos
   • Sights › Museum

   Opposite the Lao National Museum, and dwarfing it, is the monumentally proportioned Lao National Culture Hall. The outsized and ugly hall was built by the Chinese government in the late 1990s as a ‘gift to the people of Laos’. It hosts occasional cultural events as varied as French cinema, Lao classical dance and even beauty pageants, but with no publicly available schedule of events you’ll need to keep a close eye on the Vientiane Times for an announcement.

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   Haw Pha Kaeo

   • Vientiane, Laos
   • Sights › Museum

   Once a royal temple built specifically to house the famed Emerald Buddha, Haw Pha Kaeo is today a national museum of religious art. It is about 100m southeast of Wat Si Saket.

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