About the online auction “Music meets Arts for the cause of victims of Agent Orange” 7th of May 2010 : we invite you to wait until all the paintings of this event are updated on this website.

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Standing between the Temple of Literature and the Museum of Fine Arts, the Maison des Arts, built on the model of many art streams, appears as a new temple of arts. Established in May 2007 by Mme. Nguyen Nga, as a gift and a tribute to Vietnamese people, the Maison des Arts is an original location in Hanoi, embracing the qualities of an Art Center, a Gallery and a Museum as well.

As a diffusion and awareness center for vietnamese and international arts in all their multiplicity and diversity, the Maison des Arts is a rendez-vous for exchanges, meetings and interactions between people, cultures and arts, a venue creating artistic and social dynamics, a destination for all artists and all discoveries.

On its floors, looking over the Temple of Literature, the Maison des Arts offers a generous choice of pleasure and discovery:

First floor : traditionnal values of vietnamese culture and spa-massage
Second floor : contemporary art gallery
Third floor : contemporary art gallery
Fourth floor : contemporary art gallery and literary coffee, venue for artists, poets, writers
Fifth floor : house of tea, place for traditionnal music, dance, theater and place for various discovery classes like calligraphy, fruits carving, yoga…

Dedicated first to contemporary art, the Maison des Arts has made it contribution by holding events to develop local, national and international cultural activities that have won public appreciation with the qualities of its supplies.

With one exhibition per month, the Maison des Arts develops art diversity with paintings, sculptures, photographies, graphic designs, some still in more experimental approaches . The exhibitions have been closely associated with cultural events, inside or outside the gallery, such as the calligraphy festival, concerts, conferences, art performances, tea ceremony, festival “Contemporary art on traditional kites”…

Mme. Nguyen Nga

The proprietess of The Maison des Arts, Mme. Nguyen Nga, an overseas vietnamese national, is doing her best to diffuse the Vietnamese art values. Born in the North of Vietnam, Mme. Nguyen Nga left Vietnam in 1972 to study specialities of designing, urban project and architecture in Paris, France. In 1986, the Association for Vietnamese Residents in France requested her to design a place for the Vietnamese nationals to meet, exchange, and find out about traditional culture. Therefore, she founded “Maison du Vietnam” in Paris with the activities of popularizing the national culture.
With the experience and success from “Maison du Vietnam”, after joining in many significant projects in Vietnam, Mme. Nguyen Nga opened the “Maison des arts” in Hanoi, in May 2007 .

“I have done all this because I always wish to know and understand my nation profoundly. This may be a marvelous adventure, but above all, I sincerely wish to make a small contribution to the development and diffusion of Vietnamese art.”

Mme. Nguyen Nga