Hue Museum of Royal Antiquities

About this audio guide

This guide to the Hue Museum of Royal Antiquities follows the Long An Palace building itself through the Nguyen Dynasty's last century, from Emperor Thieu Tri's private retreat in eighteen forty-five to its dismantling after the French seized the citadel. It traces the palace's second life as a royal academy library, the heritage society that spent a decade gathering what remained of the court's treasures, and the unlikely edict that finally made the building a museum. Look up as you walk the galleries: the columns and carved beams are original to eighteen forty-five.