Come to CSO Gallery Hoi An to see the time of all countries in the world

Mr. Tran Huu Tai (vest, left) introduces a comparison table of times of each country in the world in mid-April 2025. Photo: KHÁNH LINH

Go Home 201 is a work of art consisting of 202 small clocks showing the time of 202 countries in the world (the time in the capital of each country). To create this work, Mr. Tai collected 202 clocks of the same shape and size, then replaced the clock face with the flag of each country and set the corresponding time before arranging them in the shape of a world map. This not only helps to see the correct time of each country at the present time in Vietnam but also to know the national flag of that country.

Next to Go Home 201, Mr. Tai displayed a large wooden board engraved with the names of 201 countries and territories along with the time difference compared to Vietnam time, helping viewers easily calculate the time of any country with simple addition and subtraction.

The Go Home 201 work is made up of 202 clocks printed with the flags of countries (including Vietnam). Photo: KHÁNH LINH

Mr. Tran Huu Tai shared that to complete the spreadsheet, he first compared Hanoi time with GMT time, then converted each country's time to GMT time and performed addition and subtraction calculations to get the corresponding time. Just by looking at the table, viewers can calculate the time difference of each country compared to Vietnam time, such as Japan is 2 hours faster than Vietnam (+2h), Denmark is 6 hours slower than Vietnam (-6h), Brazil is 10 hours slower than Vietnam (-10h), South Africa is 5 hours slower than Vietnam (-5h)...

“Space and time always have an unchanging value, no matter where people go or what they do, these two elements cannot be separated. Therefore, I always think that I have to do something to specify space and time to help visitors grasp the time in any country right at CSO Gallery. At the same time, I also want the world to know that Vietnamese people can research and invent their own works,” said Mr. Tai.

Wooden board engraved with the time of 201 countries and territories around the world compared to the current time in Vietnam. Photo: KHÁNH LINH

Most foreign tourists expressed surprise and admiration when admiring Go Home 201 because of its simplicity, precision and ease of understanding. Mr. Olivia - an Australian tourist said that this was the first time he saw a work that simultaneously showed the time in 202 countries in the world, although places like post offices, hotels... also have clocks but the number is not much, the class is only limited to some cities or a few large countries... "The work really brought me many surprises and excitement. It deserves to be admired" - Mr. Olivia happily said.

Opening to visitors at the end of January 2024, CSO Gallery (229 Cua Dai Street, Hoi An City) is a unique thematic museum with many valuable collections. In addition to Go Home 201, visitors can also admire collections of Tale of Kieu with many editions and publications that have set Vietnamese records (2022), or stamp collections about President Ho Chi Minh, about the horse mascot (Vietnam record in 2023) ...

Visitors also cannot miss the collection of ancient coins, banknotes and paper money from all over the world with many unique designs, images, materials and themes such as the animal coin collection, the world food coin collection (FAO), the women's banknote collection, the emergency banknote collection, the smallest and largest denominations, the punched money collection, the stamped money collection, the special material money collection...

CSO Gallery Hoi An. Photo: KHÁNH LINH

In addition, this place also displays a collection of badges (insignia) of soldiers of British military units in World War I and World War II or lucky coins of 200 countries... contributing to bringing many interesting perspectives on aesthetics, economics, society, military, and currency in the development journey of each country as well as human history.

Source: https://baoquangnam.vn/den-cso-gallery-hoi-an-xem-gio-tat-ca-quoc-gia-tren-the-gioi-3153336.html