War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City
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War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City
War Remnants Museum, formerly known as Saigon’s Exhibition House of American War Crimes, portrays the horrors and details of the Vietnam War. At present it is located within an assemblage of warehouses. However its new building adjacent to its present location is under construction. This museum standing near the city’s famous Reunification palace, with its halls filled with gruesome photographs and a real guillotine, depicts some of the worst brutality that happened during the Vietnam War.
For its graphic descriptions of napalm, photographs of victims and actual weapons, agent orange and phosphurus bombs, it is the most crowded of all the museums in Ho Chi Minh City. One room of this museum is devoted to the protest that went on across the globe during those days of war. The disturbing displays of the museum depict the cruelties involved in the killing of innocent civilians, torturing of prisoners, the spreading of poisonous defoliant and the effects of the war in the north.
Tanks, bombs, planes, helicopters used during the Vietnam War are also kept in the Saigon’s War Remnants Museum. Some rooms outside the museum exhibit cultural products, giving you a glimpse of the Vietnamese culture. Since its inception more than six million people have visited this famous museum in Saigon. Among its millions of visitors around one million are foreign tourists.
The contact details of this museum is given below:
Address: 28 Vo Van Tan St., Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Telephone: 08-930-5587
In spite of its disturbing displays, it is a must see place in Ho Chi Minh City.
