Museum and collection

War Remnants Museum (Bao Tang Chung Tich Chien Tranh)
        Address: 28 Vo van Tan street, district 3 (quite near Reunification Palace and Le Quy Don high school)
        Tel: 3930 5587
        Website: www.baotangchungtichchientranh.vn
        Open: Everyday (including holiday)
                   7:30AM - 12:00 noon & 1:30PM - 5:00PM
        Admission:  15,000VND
        Note: please dress properly (eventhough its not in regulation)

Overview: 

Ebstablished in September 1975, with more than 20,000 objects and documentary films about Vietnam war, the War Remnant Museum is one of the main sightseeing spots in the city.

Right behind the gate of museum is the outside exhibition area where the most modern US weapons, armoured vehicles, aircrafts and bombs used in Vietnam war are displayed. Pay attention at a concrete sewer in which three children of Ben Tre province hidden from US army in an attack in 1969. The children at last were killed fiercely and the general of  that attack was Bob Kerry who later on became senator.

Next is the war crime exhibition area which contains photographs illustrating atrocities of US army. Among them, the My Lai massacre’s ones tell us the most horrible and crazy behaviours of many US soldiers and generals in the war. (For details: see Destination -> Quang Ngai – Son My)

The other areas include a model of Con Dao tiger cages which were called as “the hell on the earth”,  a guillotine used by French colonialists on Viet Minh (Vietnamese soldiers and cadres) and a gallery named “War and Peace” with pictures drawn by Vietnamese children and photographs, posters showing Internation support for anti war movements.

The War Remnant Museum is one of some 60 museums in the world recognised by UNESCO as “Museum for Peace”

Trip Advisor members' comments

* Sheath27 from Sydney

Gives you a good insight into the Vietnamese peoples resilience, goodwill and ability to smile and progress after adversity.

I visit it everytime I go to HCMC. Gives me a bit of a wake up call I guess.

Everyone who visits Vn should go there at least once

* JoySmith from Cape Town

I visited the War Remnants Museum in October 2012. It made such a huge impression I believe it should be a compulsory visit. It shows the brutality of war and the legacy - the long-term effects generations later - the chemical warfare, the landmines, the unexploded bombs in farmers' fields. Perhaps if world leaders actually saw the results of their ivory tower decisions they would not be so cavalier in their attitude towards armed conflict. Don't miss it.

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"Ao dai" museum

Vietnam’s first ao dai (women’s traditional tunic) museum opened in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 9 Wednesday.

The private museum, located in the 20,000-square meter Long Thuan Garden House in the suburban district, features 500 unique dresses dating back to 1930.

The collection includes ones wore by most famous Vietnamese women in the arts, politics and military, such as ones donated by Ton Nu Thi Ninh, who is the former ambassador of Vietnam to the EU and former vice-chair of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee. Some were worn by Ninh, her mother-in-law and her daughter-in-law.

Other highlights are empresses’ dress called phuong bao (phoenix dress) and sets of ao dai owned by Nguyen Thi Dinh, Vietnam’s first female major general to serve in the Vietnam People's Army, former deputy president Nguyen Thi Binh, and famous senior cai luong artists Kim Cuong and Bay Nam.

In addition, the museum, owned by fashion designer Si Hoang, also has 3,000 photos of the tunic and other ao dai-related artifacts.

Ao dai designer Hoang, a former lecturer at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Architecture, initiated the museum project, located on 206/19/30 Long Thuan Street, District 9, in 2006 though.

His garden was built four years earlier as a hub for arts exhibitions, fashion shows, gastronomy events and eco-tourism, thanks to its open air arrangement including lotus ponds, fishing ponds, orchards, old wooden houses, camping space and art installations.

Tickets to the museum are priced at VND100,000 for tourists, 30,000 for the disabled, and free for elderly and children as the investor aims to promote Vietnamese dress culture and traditional arts to local students.

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 (Source: ThanhNienNews)

First wax museum in Vietnam

VietNamNet: Visitors to Danang’s Ba Na tourist resort have the chance to pose for a photo with life-size wax models of celebrities they admire when touring the wax museum known as the first Madame Tussauds Vietnam.Let’s tour the gallery in pictures:

The collection of old bicycles of a Hanoi man

VietNamNet Bridge - Mr. Tran Tuan Phong in Ha Dong district, Hanoi always sees dozens of bikes manufactured in the mid-20 century as his bosom friends.

 Over 60 years, Phong has great passion for antique bikes collected from all regions of Vietnam and some were imported.

 On the occasion of the Van Phuc silk village’s antique festival, Phong exhibited his bikes. A lot of people were very interested in these bikes.

 "Before 1975, I had a bike from France, which was a fortune at that time," Phong recalled. After years of sticking to his bike, he was determined to buy more bikes. Whenever someone asks him about his unique vehicles, he excitedly introduces and explains to them.

 The bikes manufactured from 1947 are currently priced about VND40 million ($2,000).

A Peugeot bike part is made of aluminum and shaped in dragon scales.

This is an original Peugeot.

 Phong spends a lot of time to clean and polish his bikes.

The impressive design of a horn.

I n addition to bikes, Phong has a mobylette. He refused to sell it for VND100 million ($5,000).

 It was manufactured in 1950 and can run at a speed of 40-50 km/h.

 He also collects spare parts.

 “Thousands of US dollars can be very high for a bike but who understand the bikes know about their value. Sometimes you have a lot of money but you cannot buy the bikes you like,” he said.