Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum

This guide to the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum in Hanoi follows painter Nguyen Trong Niet, who opened a Russian art book decades after selling a lacquer painting to the museum and found what he was told was his own work already hanging in Moscow. It traces the museum's explanation, his wife's skeptical response, and a deeper uncertainty running back to a wartime restoration workshop that copied paintings to save them from American bombs. Take a slow look at the building itself, raised in 1937 as a French boarding school.