Vinh Long Museum is a place to store, preserve, and display valuable documents about the heroic struggle of the people of the Mekong Delta. This place, with its precious historical and cultural values, has attracted many people who love to explore and choose it as a destination when traveling to Vinh Long.
And if Vinh Long communal house is said to be a place to preserve traditional cultural values across generations, Vinh Long Museum is the place to preserve the heroic history of the people of the Southwest region during the two resistance wars.
Overview of Vinh Long Museum
Vinh Long Museum was established in 1993 as a place to research and display cultural and historical heritage, and to recreate the formation and development of Vinh Long province…
Besides, when visiting Vinh Long Museum, you will be introduced to the province’s historical relics and to many other areas that display intangible cultural heritage at the provincial and national levels.
Address: 1 Phan Boi Chau, Long Chau Ward.
Opening hours: 7:30 – 11:00 & 13:30 – 17:00 from Tuesday to Saturday.
Vinh Long Museum is only about 3km from the city center. And if you want to travel from Ho Chi Minh City, the best way is to book a private car to Vinh Long to get to this area.
What’s special about Vinh Long Museum?
The museum has a total area of more than 12 thousand m2, divided into 4 consecutive exhibition blocks, including: Revolutionary Historical Traditions Gallery, Vinh Long Ethnic Culture Gallery, Hung Vuong Temple and Thematic Exhibition House. The grounds of the museum are planted with many cool green trees and are places to display a number of outdoor artifacts such as cannons, tanks, airplanes, bunker relics, and provincial prisons.
Revolutionary Historical Traditions Gallery
Located opposite the main gate is the Revolutionary History Traditional Gallery, with a total area of 844 m², including the ground floor and upper floors. It was formerly the Provincial Governor’s Palace, built during the French period, and later used by the provincial government as an exhibition place on revolutionary history.
The ground floor space is where two thematic exhibitions are displayed. First is the topic of President Ho Chi Minh; the Vinh Long Museum uses historical documents and images to highlight his great contributions to the national liberation movement.
The second is the theme “Vinh Long Heroes”, displaying historical figures, heroic Vietnamese mothers, and Vinh Long Provincial Party Committee Secretaries from 1930 to the present.
There is also another area that displays images and historical events associated with the army and people of the Southwest region’s struggle for national liberation through two resistance wars.
Ethnic Culture Gallery
The Ethnic Culture Gallery is located to the right of the main gate of Vinh Long Museum, covering 900m² and providing space to display images and artifacts related to the natural history and culture of ethnic groups in the province. The front room displays Oc Eo cultural artifacts found at the Thanh Moi site, including the Unicorn Statue, the Goddess Saraswati Statue, and the Vishnu Statue, which was recognized as a National Treasure in 2018.
At the exhibition area, there is also a space to display the culture of the three ethnic groups, Kinh, Chinese, and Khmer, divided into separate areas. Each place is designed with a unique architectural style and features a collection of jewelry, traditional costumes, musical instruments, etc. In addition, when you visit Vinh Long Museum, you will be introduced to “Don Ca Tai Tu”, an art form recognized by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage in 2019.
Hung Vuong Temple
From the main gate of Vinh Long Museum, turn to the left, and you will reach the Hung Vuong Temple with an area of 193m² hidden behind the green canopy of ancient trees. This is a project whose architecture and interior were restored by the Vinh Long Museum to clearly recreate a traditional Southern-style house in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
When coming here, in addition to admiring the antiques dating back more than a hundred years, you can visit the place where the Hung Kings are worshiped to pay your respects and remember the origins and merits of the Kings. On every 10th day of the third lunar month, at the Vinh Long Museum, the Hung King Ceremony is held, attracting a large number of people to attend.
Thematic exhibition hall
The thematic exhibition house is the most diverse and colorful place at Vinh Long Museum. Depending on different times, the Exhibition House will have a certain theme, including:
+ Thematic exhibition “Costume – Jewelry” of the Mekong Delta ethnic groups: featuring images and artifacts of typical costumes and jewelry of the Vietnamese, Khmer, and Chinese ethnic groups from the 18th to the 20th century.
+ Thematic exhibition “From reclamation until today”: the museum uses bibliographies, documents, images, artifacts, cultural heritage… to introduce the formation and development of the area, in order to pay tribute to the ancestors who have contributed to building and protecting the territory.
+ Thematic exhibition “From Don Ca Tai Tu”: displays the art of amateur music.
+ Special exhibition “Vietnamese New Year”: With the desire to preserve and promote the traditional beauty of the nation. Artifacts on display, such as the ancestral altar, a set of sofas and couches, and a kitchen for cooking “banh chung” and “banh tet” (Vietnamese sticky rice cakes)…
Visiting Vinh Long Museum, you will learn more about the long-standing history, culture, and traditions of heroic struggle through the two resistance wars against the French and Americans by the people of the Southwest region. Therefore, this is a place that you cannot miss in your Vinh Long travel guide.
Useful information about Vinh Long Museum
- Best for: solo, family, student.
- Entrance: Free
- Tourist spots nearby: Vinh Trang Pagoda, Thoi Son Islet, Vinh Long Ancient House Ecological Area, May Islet; Vinh Long Ceramic Brick, …
Source: collected by An
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