The War Remnants Museum is a place to preserve evidence of Vietnamese history during modern war times and one of the 10 Must-see Ho Chi Minh City Museums. To achieve today's peace, Vietnam has gone through 30 years of continuous war, with blood, fire, bullets, and bombs. This museum was built to recreate that heroic history and is a great destination in HCMC.
The Remnants Museum was established to preserve heroic historical achievements and praise the patriotism of the Vietnamese people in the defence of their homeland.
Today, the museum is managed by the Department of Culture and Sports of Ho Chi Minh City. It is not just a place for tourists to visit but also a venue for the city's major cultural events.
Located at 28 Vo Van Tan Street, Ward 6, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, the War Remnants Museum of Ho Chi Minh City is a modern building with a total area of 4,522 square meters. In addition, there are also several outdoor exhibitions covering a total of 3,026 square meters.
The museum consists of 3 floors, with a total of 8 thematic areas, each floor displaying different images with different themes. The content displayed at the museum is not according to historical chronology but mainly in the order of issues about the community and for the community.
The yard is a collection of heavy weapons including M84, and M41 tanks, reconnaissance aircraft, jets, artillery, helicopters, and small warships. They are all trophy weapons captured by the Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.
This is a gallery of 66 photos, 20 documents, and 153 artifacts. All testify to the process of French colonialism and the American army waging a war of aggression against Vietnam.
After the North of Vietnam gained independence and defeated the French army, the US army intervened by rejecting the Geneva Accords. They brought soldiers, mercenaries, bombs, bullets, and death to this land, and every single piece of detail is recorded here.
"Reminiscence" is a collection of photos about the war in Vietnam made by two British journalists, Tim Page and Horst Faas, with the help of the Vietnam News Agency.
The collection includes 275 photos of 134 reporters from 11 different countries who died in the Indochina battlefield. "Reminiscence" is a message filled with blood, tears, and suffering of war caused by evil forces in Vietnam.
This is a display area of 123 photos taken by Japanese photographer - Ishikawa Bunyo - a reporter for Focus Studio Hong Kong. He lived and worked in Vietnam from 1965 until the end of the war. In 1998, this reporter donated most of his photographic works to the War Remnants Museum.
This is also a photo collection made by Japanese photographer Goro Nakamura with 42 works. Since 1961, he has devoted most of his time to recording images of the war in Vietnam, especially about the Agent Orange disaster caused by the US; and we know for sure that this chemical substance has claimed the lives of many souls.
The “War Crimes of Aggression” is a major thematic area at the HCMC War Remnants Museum. It exhibits 125 photos, 22 documents, and 243 artifacts including guns, spear nets, weapons, etc., as evidence of crimes and consequences of war on the country and people of Vietnam.
This is the area that has brought the most tears to visitors' eyes at the Ho Chi Minh City War Relics Museum. It has more than 100 photos, 10 documents, and artifacts recording the suffering of the victims of this chemical warfare. They reveal the crimes of the US military during the war and show the pains that these victims must endure in life.
The thematic area includes 100 photos and 145 documents and artifacts recording anti-war protests, protest rallies, conferences, and seminars of many people around the world that took place for a common purpose - supporting Vietnam's resistance war. In addition, American veterans also donated their keepsakes to the War Remnants Museum to show respect for the Vietnamese people as well as their regrets.
The most unique and unforgettable image of the War Remnants Museum is probably the "Tiger Cage" which is a relatively identical simulation of the image of the "Tiger Cage" at Con Dao prison. It includes 2 compartments, each 3m long and 2m wide, woven with barbed wire along with 2 prisoner statues. Even though it's just a reconstructed model, the "Tiger's Cage" succeeded in portraying images of the brutal torture of prisoners by the US imperialists. Depending on the type of "tiger cage", prisoners must lie on the barbed wire that punctures their skin with a serie of brutal forms of torture.
These pictures also show the endurance of the Vietnamese people and the sacrifice of their own lives in the cause of regaining independence for the motherland.
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The Ho Chi Minh City War Remnants Museum has a ticket price of 40,000 VND/person.
Visitors who do not comply with the above regulations may be cast out.
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