Museum of Trade Ceramics Bảo tàng Gốm sứ Mậu dịch
Trade ceramics in a tube house
A nineteenth-century wooden house at 80 Trần Phú holding 368 trade ceramics from the 9th to the 19th century, all dug up in Hoi An. The house is the other exhibit: front, bridge, and back around a sky well, with a balcony over the tiled street. Give it a museum hour.
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The wooden house at 80 Trần Phú, balcony and shutters
Photo: Steffen Schmitz (more photos) · CC BY-SA 4.0
The museum is the two-storey wooden house at 80 Trần Phú, set up in 1995 with help from Japanese specialists. The collection is 368 objects from the 9th and 10th centuries through the 19th, found at archaeological sites in Hoi An: the trade ceramics of the years when ships from East Asia and Europe used the port.
Photo: Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China · CC0
The house is the other reason to go in. It follows the old-town plan: a front house, a back house, and a bridge section between them, with an open sky well in the middle and the kitchen at the rear. From the balcony you look down the street of tiled roofs.
It is open every day except the 15th of the month. Museums are the extra stop on the larger combination ticket.
Getting there and around
Walk along Trần Phú to number 80, in the old town.
If the night is by the old town, search Old Town hotels.
From the old town
Walk along Trần Phú to number 80.
Hours and fees
- Hours
Check on arrival
- Closed
Closed on the 15th of each month.
- Admission
No separate price for this building. From 10 Aug 2026: 20,000 VND per person per building, the same for every visitor (Da Nang Resolution 98/2026). Heritage centre notices of 26 Jan and 16 Mar 2026: 80,000 VND (streetscape, Chùa Cầu or Miếu Quan Công, and two other works) or 120,000 VND (adds a museum and three other works), usable through a stay of up to three days. A May 2026 article counts those as four and six works. Ask at the booth which ticket is on sale.
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