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Fine Arts Museum
The decaying grandeur of this French colonial building houses an eclectic display of art. Spread over three floors, the collection features work from the classical periods alongside abstract and modern Vietnamese pieces. The garden cafe is a preferred spot for elderly gentlemen to exchange stamp collections and sip iced tea.
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History Museum
The stunning Sino-French-style building that houses the museum is alone worth the visit. The many valuable relics taken from Cambodia's mystical Angkor Wat deserve some pensive minutes. The museum has a fine collection of artefacts illustrating the evolution of the cultures of Vietnam dating back to the Bronze Age, and a good museum gift shop
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Ho Chi Minh Museum
The Ho Chi Minh Museum is in the old customs house in District 4, just across Ben Nghe Channel from the quayside end of ÐL Ham Nghi. Nicknamed the 'Dragon House' (Nha Rong), it was built in 1863. The tie between Ho Chi Minh and the museum building is tenuous: 21-year-old Ho, having signed on as a stoker and galley boy on a French freighter, left Vietnam from here in 1911 and thus began 30 years of exile in France, the Soviet Union, China and elsewhere.
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Military Museum
Just across Ð Nguyen Binh Khiem is a small Military Museum devoted to Ho Chi Minh's campaign to liberate the south. Inside is of minor interest, but some US, Chinese and Soviet war material is on display outdoors, including a Cessna A-37 of the South Vietnamese Air Force and a US-built F-5E Tiger with the 20mm nose gun still loaded. The tank on display is one of the tanks that broke into the grounds of Reunification Palace on 30 April 1975.
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Museum of Ho Chi Minh City
Housed in a grey, neoclassical structure built in 1886 and once known as Gia Long Palace (later, the Revolutionary Museum), the Museum of Ho Chi Minh City is a singularly beautiful and amazing building.
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Ton Duc Thang Museum
The small, seldom-visited Ton Duc Thang Museum is dedicated to Ton Duc Thang, Ho Chi Minh's successor as president of Vietnam, who was born in Long Xuyen, An Giang province, in 1888. He died in office in 1980. Photos and displays illustrate his role in the Vietnamese Revolution, including a couple of very lifelike exhibits representing the time he spent imprisoned on Con Son Island.
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War Remnants Museum
Once known as the Museum of Chinese and American War Crimes, the War Remnants Museum is now the most popular museum in HCMC with Western tourists. Many of the atrocities documented here were well publicised in the West, but rarely do Westerners have the opportunity to hear the victims of US military action tell their own stories.
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