Museum sights in Central Vietnam
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Museum of Royal Fine Arts
The beautiful hall that houses the Museum of Royal Fine Arts was built in 1845 and restored when the museum was founded in 1923. The walls are inscribed with poems written in nom (Vietnamese script). The most precious artefacts were lost during the American War, but the ceramics, furniture and royal clothing that remain are well worth the visit. The outside courtyard has interesting ceremonial cannons, stone court sculptures and large brass bells and vats.
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Diep Dong Nguyen House
Built for a Chinese merchant in the late 19th century is Diep Dong Nguyen House. The front room on the ground floor was once a dispensary for thuoc bac (Chinese medicine); the medicines were stored in the glass-enclosed cases lining the walls. The owner's private collection of antiques - which includes photographs, porcelain and furniture - is on display upstairs. Two of the chairs were once lent by the family to Emperor Bao Dai.
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General Museum Complex
The General Museum Complex is housed in an exquisite building once a school for princes and the sons of high-ranking mandarins. It combines, in an odd juxtaposition, a pagoda devoted to archaeology, a small Natural History Museum and a building devoted to the 'movement of revolutionary struggle and anti-French colonialism resistance war'. There's a tank collection out front.
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Ho Chi Minh Museum
Despite its huge grounds, this museum is typically unenlightening for a site venerating Ho Chi Minh. At the front is a display of the usual US, Soviet and Chinese weaponry. Hidden behind the Party buildings are a replica of Ho Chi Minh’s house in Hanoi and a museum about him.
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Ho Chi Minh Museum
On display at the Ho Chi Minh Museum are photographs, some of Ho Chi Minh's personal effects, and documents relating to his life and accomplishments. All have English captions.
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Hoi An Museum of History & Culture
Housed in the Quan Am Pagoda, the Hoi An Museum of History & Culture provides a sampling of pre-Cham, Cham and port-era artefacts, much of it ceramics.
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