Art galleries in Hanoi

Hanoi, Hanoi has 12 art galleries on the map. That's 12 galleries mapped around Hanoi. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Many are free to enter, so the only cost of a gallery afternoon is your time.

This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Hanoi (within about 30 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Nguyen Art Gallery and Phòng Trưng Bày Green Palm, plus Palm Artspace. If a gallery's missing from Hanoi's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Hanoi gallery lineup

12 mapped within about 30 km:

What the map tells us about art galleries in Hanoi

2 of the 12 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — galleries keep proper public hours, so plan around the listed times.

2 have websites listed. That's where the current exhibition is announced — the one thing worth checking before you visit.

The Hanoi gallery walk

The efficient Hanoi gallery walk strings these together: Nguyen Art Gallery on 32 Phố Văn Miếu, Phòng Trưng Bày Green Palm on 39 Phố Hàng Gai, Palm Artspace, Blue Gallery on 32 Phố Tràng Tiền, Vĩnh Long Gallery on 338 Phố Huế, Lunet Art Galerie on 63-65 Đường Hoàng Diệu, Propaganda, and Sculpture Park — 12 stops, one logical order. 4 more are listed below.

Gallery tips for Hanoi

How the regulars do Hanoi's galleries:

• Look at the building too at Nguyen Art Gallery. Galleries often live in the most interesting architecture in town — converted warehouses, old banks, heritage houses.
• Many galleries are free at Phòng Trưng Bày Green Palm. Smaller and artist-run spaces often charge nothing. When in doubt, check the website rather than assuming.
• Ask about the artists. Local, emerging, mid-career — the gallerist can tell you who's who and why this show matters.
• Ask about the price list. It's normal to ask, even if you're not buying. It tells you how the market values the work.

Good to know

We searched about 30 km around Hanoi — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new art gallery in Hanoi can take a while to appear. The 12 above are only as current as the community map. A art gallery that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't review exhibitions — shows change too fast. What we list is the where: real galleries, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 12 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.