Hanoi Museum
Inverted-pyramid museum of over fifty thousand artifacts, spiraling upward through Vietnamese history via a ramp instead of stairs.
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This guide to the Hanoi Museum tells the story of the inverted-pyramid building German architects Meinhard von Gerkan and Nikolaus Goetze designed for the capital's thousandth anniversary in 2010. It traces how one list named it among the world's most beautiful museums while another ranked it among the most overlooked, and follows the spiral ramp winding past more than fifty thousand objects, from Ly-dynasty dragon-carved pillars to bronze drums pulled from one of Vietnam's earliest capitals. Follow the ramp rather than looking for a staircase; there isn't one.
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