Opposite the Lao National Museum, and dwarfing it, is the monumentally proportioned Lao National Culture Hall . The outsized and ugly hall was built by the Chinese government in the late 1990s as a ‘gift to the people of Laos’. It hosts occasional cultural events as varied as French cinema, Lao classical dance and even beauty pageants, but with no publicly available schedule of events you’ll need to keep a close eye on the Vientiane Times for an announcement.
