Ho Chi Minh City Museum
Ho Chi Minh City Museum is considered one of the most beautiful and must-see museums in Ho Chi Minh City. The museum covers an area of nearly 1700m2, was built in the late 19th century and took 5 years to build. It is designed like a large mansion in the neoclassical French architectural style with modern and ancient sculptures and arched door frames in a spacious and airy flower garden.
Ho Chi Minh City Museum.
Not only does it have unique and eye-catching architecture, the Ho Chi Minh City Museum also displays valuable artifacts and offers you many interesting experiences. With 9 permanent content galleries, each room will take you to a separate historical period and help you fully understand the development of the city.
In addition to 9 permanent galleries, Ho Chi Minh City Museum also has a thematic gallery with many special topics, a city exhibition hall as well as an outdoor display area with many types of aircraft and weapons, etc.
Vietnam Museum of History
The Vietnam History Museum was built in 1929, the first museum in Saigon and the whole of South Vietnam. The project was designed and built by French architect Delaval in a style combining European and indigenous architecture, exploiting traditional elements and local climate characteristics.
Vietnam Museum of History.
In 1970, a U-shaped building was added to the back of the museum, with a small lake in the middle. The additional building has decorative dragon heads on the roof corners, in harmony with the original architecture of the building.
The museum has an area of 3,000 m2, divided into many rooms with 18 exhibition spaces. The rooms are connected to each other in the main hall in the center. This is one of the museums with large exhibition scale in the South with more than 40,000 artifacts originating from many countries and ethnic groups.
The museum's display system consists of two main parts. The first part displays artifacts of Vietnamese history from prehistory to the end of the Nguyen Dynasty. The remaining part is dedicated to the culture of southern Vietnam and some Asian countries, such as the Oc Eo culture, ancient culture of the Mekong Delta, Champa culture and art, etc.
War Remnants Museum
The War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City is a large, vivid picture of Vietnam during the years of war against the US and puppet regime.
War Remnants Museum.
The museum has 3 floors, each floor has its own theme and artifacts. On the first floor of the museum are the ticket office, multi-purpose room, and the room for the world supporting Vietnam's resistance. One of the prominent stops on the first floor is the "tiger cage" - a type of detention in Con Dao prison.
The Tiger Cages are considered the most terrible torture place of the American army for patriotic prisoners. Here, patriotic communist revolutionaries were confined in cells only about 5 square meters wide, without beds or large windows. The first floor is also a place to display large artifacts such as airplanes, tanks or cannons of soldiers or American troops during the war.
The two ground floors of the museum are a world of images and historical milestones that recreate a bloody historical period.
Southern Women's Museum
The Southern Women’s Museum used to be the private residence of Major General Nguyen Ngoc Loan – Director General of the National Police of the Saigon government. The museum’s predecessor was the Southern Women’s Traditional House, a place to display, educate and promote the historical features of women’s culture, and to organize cultural exchanges, meetings and seminars nationwide.
Southern Women's Museum.
The museum currently manages a library with nearly 10,000 books and an exhibition area of 3,162 square meters including 3 floors with 8 spacious rooms, introducing over 16,000 artifacts, images and documents, vividly arranged according to the following topics: Women's movement - Vietnam Women's Union; Vietnamese women's traditions; Commemorating President Ho Chi Minh...
Ho Chi Minh Campaign Museum
The Ho Chi Minh Campaign Museum was officially established by the Ministry of National Defense on January 29, 2021, after 34 years of operation as the Ho Chi Minh Campaign Gallery under the Military Zone 7 Museum. This is the place to preserve and recreate the entire Saigon liberation campaign - present as a symbol of victory in the resistance war against the US to save the country.
Ho Chi Minh Campaign Museum.
The entire museum is divided into two parts: the indoor exhibition area has an area of 1,000m2 and the outdoor exhibition area is 2,000m2. Of which, the indoor exhibition area has 2 floors, structured into 6 topics according to the historical timeline of the entire Ho Chi Minh Campaign, including: "From the Paris Agreement to the General Offensive and Uprising in Spring 1975", "Tay Nguyen Campaign (from March 4 to April 3, 1975)", "Hue - Da Nang Campaign (from March 5 to March 29, 1975)", "Ho Chi Minh Campaign (from April 26 to April 30, 1975)", "Ho Chi Minh Campaign Command" and "The Fall of the Saigon Regime".
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