Ho Chi Minh City Museum - museum featuring Vietnamese resistance & Ho Chi Minh
Last Update: 25th October 2020
Transformed from the Gia Long Palace, Ho Chi Minh Museum was once an important political center of the Vietnamese regime. Exhibits in the museum tells how the Vietnamese people resisted the foreign aggression in the 20th Century.
Ho Chi Minh Museum Fast Facts
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What to expect at the Ho Chi Minh Museum
Originally built in 1885, Ho Chi Minh City Museum is a beautiful neo-classical gray-white building. The museum showcases the cultural relics of the Vietnamese Communist Party in different periods.
The 2-storey building features exhibits and pictures demonstrating all aspects of social life, economy, handicraft and industry in the past 200 years in Ho Chi Minh City, including bowls and other articles of daily use, ceramics, musical instruments, farming tools, traditional costumes, and the like. Visitors can even find imperial edicts in Chinese in the museum.
The exhibits on the second floor mainly focus on the achievements of Ho Chi Minh City in the fields of economic and cultural development in recent years. In addition, visitors can see bubble cars and statues. Some pictures and documentations reflect the Second World War. At the outdoor area, helicopters, tanks and other weapons used in the Vietnam War are placed.
If you are keen on photographing, the swirling staircase is a great spot in the museum.
The 2-storey building features exhibits and pictures demonstrating all aspects of social life, economy, handicraft and industry in the past 200 years in Ho Chi Minh City, including bowls and other articles of daily use, ceramics, musical instruments, farming tools, traditional costumes, and the like. Visitors can even find imperial edicts in Chinese in the museum.
The exhibits on the second floor mainly focus on the achievements of Ho Chi Minh City in the fields of economic and cultural development in recent years. In addition, visitors can see bubble cars and statues. Some pictures and documentations reflect the Second World War. At the outdoor area, helicopters, tanks and other weapons used in the Vietnam War are placed.
If you are keen on photographing, the swirling staircase is a great spot in the museum.
Best time to visit the Ho Chi Minh Museum
Although Ho Chi Minh Museum is not so popular among tourists, the best time to visit it is in the morning as it is not so hot.
You could visit the museum around the year.
You could visit the museum around the year.
How to get to the Ho Chi Minh Museum
There is no direct bus to the building. You could rent a vehicle to the City Hall.
Additional Ho Chi Minh City Hall Travel Advice
- The City Hall is closed to the public.
- You could explore the facade of the building.
Interested in visiting the Ho Chi Minh City Hall on a Tour?
Wendy Wei Tours offers a variety of different packaged tours as well as custom tours including the Ho Chi Minh Museum among other attractions and destinations. To find out more, please visit our Tours page or Contact Us directly to find out more.