War Remnants Museum is the ideal destination for tourists to understand more about the heroic Vietnamese people in the wars through many authentic, vivid, and real-life materials, and lively images of Vietnam’s wars. Located on the grounds of the former US administration building, War Remnants Museum displays many valuable historical materials, artifacts and images to highlight the aftermath of the wars in Vietnam. The museum opened only a few months after the independent day of Vietnam, with the original name, US exhibition. Although there are a number of topics on the war against the United States, the main objective of the museum is to emphasize the cruelty of war, which is also the unique attraction to visit here.

War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City was established immediately after the unification of the country in order to save the heroic evidence of the Vietnamese people in the struggles against the invaders, highlighting the dire consequences of Vietnamese wars and at the same time calling for peace in the world. To enhance the experiences about the terrible wars in the past, War Remnants Museum not only expands on displayed topics, with diverse themes throughout the history of Vietnam’s struggles from the French-Japanese invasion to the US period. The main galleries on the first floor entitled the World Supporting for Vietnamese Resistance. This theme is extremely impressed tourists for its easily visualization of the Vietnamese wars. Specifically, the photo collection named Vietnam, the War and Peace, by Japanese photographer, Ishikawa Bunyo, created during his time in Vietnam until the end of the war. The collection consisting of more than 250 images, highlighting the negative impacts of the war on soldiers and civilians is widely considered as the museum’s most impressive exhibit. There are also many exhibits on the impact of Agent Orange on Vietnamese life. These are images and artifacts showing the cruelty of Vietnamese wars. Also, the garden has many exhibits more suitable for children such as tigers and other US military weapons such as tanks, planes and helicopters. There are also a number of unexploded ordnance uncovered around the yard.

In addition, War Remnants Museum wears the special architecture that leave tourists the overwhelming emotional touches about Vietnamese world. This consists of a ground floor and two storeys. The ground floor has a ticket counter, a multipurpose room, a world-class room for the Vietnamese resistance and especially the Tiger Cage, the most brutal detention of prisoners that the US has invented. The first and second floors display artifacts such as guns, bombs, cartridges, airplanes, tanks, and a variety of imaging collections depicting the American invasion of Vietnam. Especially, there are galleries of the southwest border war to protect the northern border. Outside the museum also have booths displaying, and introducing products of ethnic culture Vietnam so that tourists can buy souvenirs for friends and relatives.

Currently, War Remnants Museum holds more than 20,000 documents, artifacts and movies, of which have been featured in eight permanent exhibitions, including: prisoners of war, spraying toxic chemicals, spraying bombs and artifacts such as airplanes, cannons, tanks, guillotines and two tiger cages built in the right like Con Dao prison. More than that, the museum also has galleries of Southwest border warfare, war protection of the northern border, and Truong Sa archipelago issues. Beside the daily activities, War Remnants Museum also organizes entertainment activities related to other topics such as food programs with the aim to introduce the wartime dishes such as tapioca, rice grasshoppers, sesame pancakes, sesame or cultural programs like love in Vietnamese wars.

Let’s come to War Remnants Museum once day to witness the real terrible wars’ impacts on the Vietnamese people!