The city of Hoi An in the Quang Nam province of Vietnam is considered a living museum. The Old Town of Hoi An is popular for having preserved its ancient homes and other centuries-old structures such as the Quan Cong Temple, Japanese Covered Bridge and Hoi An Assembly Homes. It also has four pristine beaches, An Bang beach, Cua Dai Beach, My Khe 1 Beach (more popularly known as China Beach), and My Khe 2 Beach. Popular tourist destinations outside the city are the My Son Sanctuary, Marble Mountains and Cham Islands. Hoi An has four well furnished museums, and one of them is the Museum of Folk Culture, also known as Hoi An Folklore Museum.
Located on Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, the Museum of Folk Culture aims to showcase the daily lives of the humble Hoi An folk people, documenting the local culture and how it manifested in the lives of the locals through the years. A head-turner as one enters the museum are the bizarre-looking plaster sculptures of local Vietnamese farmers and tribes wearing their traditional clothes. Accurately documenting and portraying traditional garb as they were worn in the past is very important to this museum. This is the first museum in the whole of Vietnam to ever focus specifically on the subject of local culture and rural living. …