The museum plays a major role in preserving the country’s art, artifacts, and other valuable objects. It helps you learn about Vietnam’s history, culture, and wars.

Using these details, we’ve created a list of the most visited museums in Vietnam, counting down from 10 to crown a winner.

Ho Chi Minh Museum (Ha Noi)

Ho Chi Minh Museum of Ha Noi is one of the most attractive museums in Vietnam. It’s located near President Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum. It was completed on 19 May 1990 for the 100th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh’s birthday. The museum is a four-story building covering a total area of 11,000 m2 and designed in the shape of a lotus flower as a symbol of President Ho’s noble character.

Ho Chi Minh Museum

The main showroom displays nearly 12,000 documents, articles, pictures, and exhibits illustrating the historical events that took place during President Ho Chi Minh’s life, as well as important events that occurred worldwide since the end of the 19th century. The museum has other rooms, including a library, a large hall, meeting rooms, and research rooms.

Viet Nam National Museum of History (Ha Noi)

The National Museum of History in Ha Noi was founded on 26 September 2011, following the merger of the Viet Nam History Museum and the Revolution Museum. The museum displays and introduces many valuable objects that reflect all periods of Vietnamese history.

Viet Nam National Museum of History

The museum houses 200,000 documents and artifacts displayed across 4,000 m². Also, it is divided into two main exhibitions: the exhibition on Vietnamese history from the Prehistoric age to the August Revolution of 1945 at 01 Trang Tien Street, and the exhibition on Vietnamese history from the 19th century to the present at 216 Tran Quang Khai Street.

Viet Nam Women’s Museum (Ha Noi)

Viet Nam Women’s Museum is located in the center of Ha Noi. Just 500m south of Hoan Kiem Lake. The museum is dedicated to researching, collecting, and exhibiting the life stories and activities of Vietnamese women.

The museum contains three main thematic galleries:

  • Women in Family
  • Women in History
  • Women’s Fashion

Viet Nam Women’s Museum

On display are more than 1,000 objects and photographs, ranging from ceremonial items and exquisite clothing to personal keepsakes and war documents. Through exhibitions and activities, visitors can explore the roles of Vietnamese women in contemporary society and their great contributions throughout the country’s history.

The Women’s Museum also hosts a regular series of temporary and special exhibitions. Younger visitors can take part in activities in the Discovery Room, while everyone can browse unique handmade souvenirs in the Museum Shop.

Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology (Ha Noi)

The Museum of Ethnology in Ha Noi opened at the end of 1997. Since then, it has attracted the attention of visitors as well as ethnographers and researchers from all over the world.

Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology

It contains more than 15,000 objects, 42,000 black-and-white photos, and hundreds of videotapes and cassettes that depict all aspects of life, activities, customs, and habits of the 54 ethnic groups of Viet Nam. Visitors have the opportunity to admire costumes, embroidery, and outdoor stilt houses and habits from different groups.

Besides, the museum often organizes craft and folk culture performances of ethnic groups of Viet Nam.

Royal Fine Arts Museum (Hue)

The Royal Fine Arts Museum is located in the former imperial capital of Hue – Long An Palace. The palace includes 128 pillars. At this time, artifacts display up to 10.000 objects. It is made from a variety of materials, including gold, silver, stone, wood, leather, paper, royal clothes, poems, silver products, and the Emperor’s personal objects, and is entirely dedicated to the Nguyen Dynasty.

Royal Fine Arts Museum

Museum of Cham Sculpture (Da Nang)

The Museum of Cham Sculpture was built in 1915 under the sponsorship of the French School. It is based in the Da Nang region, which was the seat of the old Champa Kingdom. It conserves the largest collection of Champa sculpture art in Vietnam. Its architecture bears the features of Cham architecture. It boasts a row of white showrooms with simple yet graceful decorations. The museum exhibits 300 original sandstone sculptures and some baked-clay products collected from temples and towers scattered from Quang Binh to Binh Thuan in the Central.

Museum of Cham Sculpture

The exhibits are statues, embossments, images, and patterns displayed in 10 rooms named after the places where they were found.

The compound of the museum blends harmoniously with the local landscape, which gives visitors a chance to relax and feel immersed in the golden past of Cham civilization.

Oceanographic Museum (Nha Trang)

The Oceanographic Museum was established in 1923; it was also the first center for scientific research in Viet Nam and is an important location for tropical oceanographic research. Visitors will have a chance to visit the Marin Creature Museum, which showcases more than 80,000 sea and freshwater specimens, as well as living creatures kept in glass tanks.

In addition to aquariums filled with marine animals such as seahorses and colorful reef species, you can also see model marine mammals and ocean-related artifacts. These displays primarily provide environmental education, with descriptions in English and Vietnamese.

War Remnants Museum (Ho Chi Minh City)

Have you ever heard about the Vietnam War? If you’re wondering how this small country won the war, the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City is a great place to find the answer.

war museum in HCMC

The museum displays shocking evidence of atrocities committed by the foreign aggressors during Viet Nam’s two national liberation wars. There is a collection of American weapons, and more impressive is a French guillotine sent to Viet Nam in the early 19th century, a model of the notorious tiger cages used to keep Vietnamese revolutionaries.

Viet Nam History Museum (Ho Chi Minh City)

The Vietnam History Museum was built in 1929 and was called Musee Blanchard de la Bosse until 1956. It was the first and the largest museum in this city. During that period, the museum hosted various exhibits of ancient Asian art. In 1956, the museum was renamed Sai Gon National Museum, and finally, in 1979, it became Viet Nam History Museum.

Viet Nam History Museum

Over 10,000 objects and documents are presented in 21 showrooms at the museum. It’s divided into 2 parts. Part 1 introduces Viet Nam history from ancient times (approximately 300,000 years ago) up to the 1930s. Part 2 displays the characteristics of the southern region of Vietnam. Besides, the museum has a storage system to preserve many artifacts.

Ho Chi Minh Museum –  Dragon House Wharf (Ho Chi Minh City)

Dragon House Wharf, formerly known as Nha Rong, was built in 1863 using both local and European materials. It consists of 2 parts in the European architectural style, but the roof is in the Oriental style, with a horse-head shape, an anchor, and two dragon-shaped symbols at the top of the building. Later, the name “Dragon House” was taken. The name of the Ho Chi Minh Museum was changed in September 1979 to the Ho Chi Minh branch.

Dragon Wharft

From this area, the young man Nguyen Tat Thanh (later President Ho Chi Minh) set sail aboard the French ship Admiral Latouche Treville in June 1911 to serve the country.

The museum has a collection of 3,000 pictures, 700 artifacts, 11,600 documents, 3300 books relating to President Ho Chi Minh – a wondrous life that has inspired millions of people around the world.

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