Museum of Tarot (in short term, or sometime Museum of Tarot and
Oracle, or officially Museum of Tarot and Occult), founded in 2016 (will
officially open in 2017), is located in Can Tho City, in the south of Vietnam.
The museum has three themes: Lithotherapy, Cartomancy and Demonology.
It is combined from six main collections:
ü Fortune Telling Cards (Tarot and Oracles decks),
üHistorical Books and Documents on Cartomancy and Divination,
üArt of Cardmaking and Decoration of Fortune Telling Cards;
üAmulets and Talismans and Magical Tools;
üCharms Stones and Lithotherapy Crystals and Charmestones;
üDemonology and Sacred Books and Haunted Objects.
The museum has a large variety of objects from 15th century to 21th
century.
The museum is established in an ancient noble hotel, called “the
citron house”, under the Vietnamese renaissance style. This house is sacrificed
for the museum by an old couple of lawyer, Anh Ngo and Duong Ho in 2016.
TYPES AND NUMBER OF DISPLAYED WORKS
ü1000
playing cards deck and divinatory cards deck, with or without its box, guide, cover
paper,
in
Wood-engraving and etching, hand-painted or painted with stencils, printed
in litho
and chromolithography.
ü50
uncut sheets of cards,
with or without coloring.
ü100
printing
plates,
in etchings,
burins, wood-engravings, steels, lithography or photographic glass plates.
ü200
books and manuscripts,
hard or soft cover, with or without signed, original or re-edition.
ü200
prints and photography,
original or reproduction, with scenario of playing cards game or divinatory
activities, posters or postal cards, extraction a segment of journals and
magazines or art works.
ü100
paintings or drawings,
original or reproduction, with scenario of playing cards game or divinatory
activities activities or
image of a/many cards, drawing
or full-color of card by artists, with or without signed.
ü10
playing games with
or without cards-style in bone or ivory, metal, wood-engraving, or other
material.
ü100
game
boxes,
made of
inlaid wood and hand-painted lacquered wood, in lacquered
cardboard and other materials.
ü100
ceramic or glass art works, with scenario of playing cards game or
divinatory activities
or image of a/many cards.