Hanoi

The square will help explain how civil servants and underground activists turned an official rally into the beginning of a change of power.

A temporary platform will help reconstruct the day when the republic first appeared before the city’s residents.

Five passageways will show how court hierarchy was embedded in the architecture itself.

The market's layout will help explain why the route out of the encircled quarter was decided here.

The final stop shows how residents and artists restored the Hanoi Old Quarter's connection with Phuc Tan.

Here, the finds will prove more important than the construction site for which the archaeologists began their work.

It carries the theme of memory from carved names to the fate of an object saved at the cost of breaking with its former place.

The surviving communal house will explain why the artisans did not leave the street after losing the court commission.

The overnight climb explains why the main act of the ceremonial event took place without spectators.

It shows how examination success was turned into a public obligation.

Two neighboring monuments complete the route with stories of will, loss, and restoration.

This stop links the workings of a colonial prison to the people who managed to return from it to underground work.

One room links wartime meetings with the final weeks of the president's life.

It will link the change of dynasty and of the academy’s status to the most recognizable symbol of scholarly Hanoi.

The surviving staircase marks the place where an unauthorized victory was turned into recognized rank.

It will show how an official space acquired a new memory created by the urban community.

The short approach to the cathedral shows how an administrative redevelopment acquired everyday urban life.

Two shell holes link the surviving masonry to the choice made by the citadel’s defenders.

Behind the hotel facade, the story of a recording made on one night during air raids will unfold.

This is where the story begins of the price the Catholic community paid to gain a new main church.

It sets the boundary at which respect for learning temporarily ranked above status.

What it cost the teacher to place moral duty above his court position.

The name of the square leads to free classes above family shops and to the reason they were closed.

Here, the street names turn out to be the result of a struggle for customers and for the permitted range of goods.

Here, a street name leads to a vanished mint, its workers, and furnaces found beneath a shopping center.

The islet will show what risk was required for a single sign visible across the whole city.

It will show that the scholarly culture of the Temple of Literature began beyond its fence and could disappear even from city records.

The final stop will show how former Asian collections were assembled into the country’s history for a new public.