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History in the Making January, Volume 10New Exhibition Reveals a Time of Change in the RegionThis weekend, the Historical Museum of Hanoi will see to the opening of a new exhibition of historical photographs from Southeast Asia. The show will be open to visitors every day from June 21 to September 12, with a special sneak preview for invited guests only on the day before the official opening.According to the museum’s curator, Adrian Phan, uWe see the region in a transitional period, with ancient, traditional ways of life mixing with the modernity that Westerners have brought with them. I found the photographs of the emerging middle class of Asian merchants particularly intriguing. In the earlier pictures, we see them trying to mimic the French clothing, but as the exhibition moves closer to the end of the colonial period, they develop their own style.”Entry to the main exhibition at the Historical Museum of Hanoi is free, but it will cost 100,000 dong to see the ‘ Photographs of Colonial Southeast Asia’ display.