The Sa Huynh Culture Museum in Hoi An is a bearer of a legacy that is
both rich and rare. The Sa Huynh Culture Museum in Hoi An is one of the
most important museums located in Hoi An. Located in the Tran Thu
Street of the Hoi An heritage center, the museum houses crucial and
revealing relics of the Sa Huynh culture. The Sa Huynh culture is a pre
historic Bronze Age civilization that occurred in Vietnam, and more
particularly in the central region of the country near the coast.
The Sa Huynh culture specialized in metal wares – especially bronze and
iron – and ceramics. The majority of the display in the museum
comprises of articles like jewelry, weapons like daggers and useful
implements like axes. All recovered evidence of these facts are seen
preserved and displayed in the Sa Huynh Culture Museum in Hoi An. There
is another feature that the Sa Huynh had perfected enough to the level
of art; and that is the funerary rituals and rites. Discovery of jar
burials of over 200 in number from 50 or more different sites are
recorded in the Sa Huynh Culture Museum in Hoi An. Most of the articles
on display in the Sa Huynh Culture Museum in Hoi An date back to the
1st Millennium BC which is better known as the Iron Age. There are a
total of 216 exhibits in the museum. They were all acquired from the
Hau Xa, Thanh Chiem, An Bang and Xuan Lam villages.
