Vietnamese pottery on display in Belgium

Hundreds of traditional made-in-Vietnam ceramic products are on display at an exhibition in Brussels on Nov. 22 to introduce the traditional pottery and cultural heritages of craft villages in North Vietnam. The exhibition at the Royal Museum Mariemont, entitled "Hong (Red) River Pottery: An Cultural Itinerary", was part of a cultural project funded by the Belgium's French-speaking community and the Francophone Community in Brussels. Visitors to the exposition are also offered a chance to deepen their understanding about Vietnamese traditional ceramic making process, archeological relics and time-honoured pottery villages of Vietnam.


The show was the outcome of concerted efforts made by Vietnamese experts from the Cultural Heritage Department under the Ministry of Culture and Information and their colleagues from the Belgian Cultural Heritage Agency and the Royal Museum Mariemont over the past three years, said Dang Van Bai, Head of the Department. The six-year project, dubbed "Cultural Itinerary: Traditional Craft Villages", started in 2004. Over the past three years, the project targeted traditional pottery villages and related archeological sites in the Red River Delta in North Vietnam.