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The first tea museum in Vietnam

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More than 20 km from the center of Da Lat City (Lam Dong), located at an altitude of 1,650 m above sea level, on the foundation of the ancient tea factory of East – South Asia, the Cau Dat Farm Ancient Tea Museum is not Interesting installation art space associated with the story of Cau Dat tea brand that is nearly 100 years old.

Visiting Cau Dat Farm Ancient Tea Museum (Da Lat City, Lam Dong). More than 20 km from the center of Da Lat City (Lam Dong), located at an altitude of 1,650 m above sea level, on the foundation of the ancient tea factory of East – South Asia, the Cau Dat Farm Ancient Tea Museum is not Interesting installation art space associated with the story of Cau Dat tea brand that is nearly 100 years old. As a famous tea area of ​​Lam Dong province, Cau Dat is located at an ideal height with a cool climate all year round, fog cover, where there are immense green tea hills with lush tea buds. In 1927, the French built the first tea factory in East-South Asia, named the Cau Dat Tea Department and brought tea processing technology here. Later, the factory was converted to its use purpose, renamed Cau Dat Farm. The entire factory area, equipment, machines, tools and tea making machines of nearly 100 years old and original tea-making artifacts … are preserved to serve the idea of ​​building the first tea museum in Vietnam. After more than three years of incubation, in early 2021, Cau Dat Farm Ancient Tea Museum officially came into operation with the desire to preserve a part of the history of Cau Dat Tea Hill, and at the same time reappeared all the ups and downs. as well as the experience of making tea over the past 100 years of the people here. The highlight of the museum is the installation art using space, sound and light, making the museum a work of art, creating effects for visitors. Visiting the museum, visitors learn about tea trees through six separate spaces, each with a tea tree related content. The Quintessence Room is 1,650 m, recreating Cau Dat tea hill all year round hidden in the mist, all the ups and downs of history, 100 years of tea making experience of the people here through nine large-sized videos. projected on a wall space. Viewers will enter a room filled with images and sounds of nature and people of Cau Dat at an altitude of 1,650 m. The Historical Box holds tea-making artifacts with a long history of the ancient tea factory, dust-coated machines such as tea drying machines, crushers, tea system heat pipes, fan systems. Ventilation, integrated screening machine, micro-scale … The interesting point in the museum space is room 3 with the name of a 2-leaf shrimp, including art installations combining light and large-scale tea cubes. loud, auditory and tactile. More than 100 tea cubes are made up of 350 kg of green tea, black tea and oolong tea divided into three separate areas, with thousands of glittering rain yarns connecting the series of floating clouds lights to create a warm light, vaguely and fanciful, depicting the rolling hills and clouds of Cau Dat. On the horizontal wall of the museum, there are seven paintings simulating the tea making process at Cau Dat that are reproduced in a simple and pure visual language. A special feature is that the main materials used for this series of paintings, from acid dyes to paint colors, are all taken from the soil of the tea hills and Cau Dat tea leaves. Each picture is covered by hundreds of fish paper, a special paper made from rice that the people of the central fishing village use to preserve the fish after pulling the fishing net. Room 4 tells the story of tea makers with tools that were attached to tea making in the past. Artists have used wooden doors in old tea warehouses, thereby telling the story of Cau Dat Farm tea making through generations. Room 5 Overlooking the world of tea, visitors will experience the diverse tea cultures around the world, learn more about the journey of fresh tea leaves from harvest to finished product. Room 6 is the viewing space at Cau Dat Farm. Visitors experience cups of green tea, black tea and oolong tea made by the hand of an artisan, where tea growers and brewers perceive tea with the senses. Bringing art to create a lively space through movies, documents, images, artifacts, Farm Dat Farm Ancient Tea Museum has recreated the history, people, tea processing process as well as products. branded products Cau Dat tea. Not only an interesting destination for visitors to visit and experience, learn about the history of development, tea making techniques, tea cultivation, the museum is contributing to preserving, displaying and preserving historical values. of Cau Dat tea hill. NGOC LIEN

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