via Japan News, 28 December 2023: The Kim Lan Commune Museum of Ceramics and History in Hanoi, a project passionately supported by the late Japanese archaeologist Masanari Nishimura, has reopened. Masanari, who passed away in 2013, played a crucial role in the museum’s establishment and its collection of excavated pottery dating from the 8th to 18th centuries. His efforts, along with those of local historian Nguyen Viet Hong and the Kim Lan Pottery Association, brought to light the village’s history. The museum’s revival, assisted by local authorities, honors Nishimura’s legacy and the enduring Vietnam-Japan friendship.
A pottery museum, which a late Japanese archaeologist worked enthusiastically to help establish, reopened in Hanoi in November.
Masanari Nishimura, a Japanese national who died at 47 in a traffic accident in 2013, had conducted excavations of ruins in numerous locations in Vietnam over more than 20 years.
Locals with friendship ties to Nishimura made utmost efforts in the refurbishing of the museum after the original location was closed because of the deteriorating building that housed it.
The Kim Lan Commune Museum of Ceramics and History, stands beside the Hong River in Kim Lan Village. The white-walled facility is about a 30-minute drive from central Hanoi.