This spare museum no longer has its separate identity, but has been absorbed into the History Museum. The revolutionary part of the History Museum, then, is a series of rooms, with grainy photos and other memorabilia of the revolutionary struggle. As a museum, the design...More

Our guide took us here and was helpful in explaining everything. This was not on our planned itinerary so we hadn’t prepared for it. I would suggest some prior knowledge about the revolution might be helpful in order to fully appreciate the artefacts in the...More

I was expecting to see a bit more planes, tanks, weapons and have more explanations in English. It is crowded but smallish, with not that much to see, fine for a quick visit.

This museum has joined with another just across the road, they are both now named Vietnam Nation Museum of History and it costs 80k to enter them both. This particular side of the museum was much more enjoyable than the other - very interesting!

I enjoyed this museum - its not very touristy and not as easy to follow as the Museum at the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum complex. (In fact if you want a more easily digestible narrative, go there instead). It's in a dusty old government building...More