The meaning of Vân Vân is the convergence of beautiful clouds, with a roof covered with creepers. Van Van House exhibits products of Bat Trang ancient pottery village and the house itself is also a special architectural work. It has more than 400 pottery items from the 15th to the 19th centuries.
Covering more than 400m2, Van Van museum includes three old houses of nearly 200 years and a pottery workshop. One of the houses is available in the village and the two others were brought in from Nam Dinh and Thai Binh.
Each house has five compartments, and 24 ironwood columns, and all of them are original. One of them was built with Bat Trang bricks and two were made of timber. The houses are decorated with stylized dragon motifs, which were common in the ancient houses of the northern delta. Mr. Lam did not build walls or fences around these houses, in order to create the most natural space for them.
He spent over 10 years traveling throughout the country to collect antiques to display in the museum. "Bat Trang pottery village was the place where these artifacts were made and now they have returned to the village," he says. The most valuable antiques are the two 90cm high, ivory white jars with dragon motifs, which were made in the 19th century. The jars were the precious heirlooms of a family in Nam Dinh Province. Other precious items in Van Van Museum are 50cm high jars decorated with unicorn motifs, also from the 19th century.
In addition to antiques, Van Van also displays and sells craft items made of wood and copper at the pottery workshop.
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