Revolutionary Museum is located on No.65 Ly Tu Trong Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City. The Revolutionary Museum used to be enlisted as the Governor of Nam Ky’s residence. The construction of the museum started in 1885 and was completed in 1890 under the design of French architect Alfred Foulhoux. Following that, the building became the residence of Japanese Governor Minoda. It was also the office of the Nam Bo Provisional Administrative Committee (1945) and of the Republic of France High Commissioner. The building was later reconverted into the residence of the Governor of Nam Ky. Until August 1978, the building was finally turned into the Ho Chi Minh City Revolutionary Museum.
The museum displays items related to the invasion of Vietnam by French colonialists, the founding of the Vietnam Communist Party, the anti-French resistance in Saigon-Gia Dinh (1945 to 1954), the anti-American movement, the national resistance of Saigon-Gia Dinh and the Ho Chi Minh Campaign.
2. Art Museum Ho Chi Minh City
The Art Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, also known as the Fine Arts Museum, was established on September 5th, 1987, following the decision made by the HCMC People’s Committee.
It is recognized as a first class national museum by the Vietnam’s Ministry of Culture.
It is recognized as a first class national museum by the Vietnam’s Ministry of Culture.
Housed in a three-story colonial building, the Art Museum in Saigon has a rich collection finest artworks ranging from classical sculptures to contemporary paintings.
The museum’s huge collection of displays include contemporary paintings by renowned Vietnamese and foreign artists, traditional handicrafts created by the nation’s ethnic groups, Vietnamese antiques like red-lacquered and gilded products, ceramics, mother-of-pearl inlaid wood and exhibits of Western art. Some priceless Cham, Indian and Khmer pieces are also kept in this museum. The first floor of this museum displays the spectacular creations of Vietnamese and foreign artists.
The second floor exhibits the paintings and carvings done by the renowned artists of Vietnam along with some outstanding creations of foreign artists.
The third floor preserves the priceless artworks created between the 7th and early 20th century. The valuable Cham and Oc Eo art works developed between the 7th and the 17th centuries are also kept in this floor of this museum. The exhibits of Vietnam’s Occidental art, which originated between 18th and early 20th century and traditional Vietnamese artworks are also preserved here.
3. Ho Chi Minh Museum
Biography Of Ho Chi Minh
3. Ho Chi Minh Museum
Biography Of Ho Chi Minh
He was born into a family of patriotic Confucian scholars, and grew up in a locality that had a patriotic tradition of valourous fighting against aggression. Living in a country under the yoke of French colonialists, in his childhood and youth, he wit-nessed the suffering of his compatriots and the movement against the aggressors. He developed a strong will to expel the colonialists, secure the country’s independence, and bring about freedom and happiness for the people.
With immense love for the people, in 1911, he left the fatherland to go to the West to find the way of national liberation.
With immense love for the people, in 1911, he left the fatherland to go to the West to find the way of national liberation.
From 1912 to 1917, Nguyen Tat Thanh came to many countries in Asia, Europe, the Americas and Africa and lived among the working class. He sympathized profoundly with the misery of them and the peoples in the colonies as well as their sacred aspiration. He realized early that the struggle for national liberation of the Vietnamese people was a part of the common struggle of the world people. He actively worked under the aim to unite the people in order to fight for freedom and independence.
At the end of 1917, he left Britain to return to France to continue activites for the movement of the overseas Vietnamese and French workers.
In 1919, under the name of Nguyen Ai Quoc, and on behalf of patriotic Vietnamese nationals in France, he sent to the Versailles Conference a petition for the freedom of the Vietnamese people that would also be the freedom of the colonised peoples.
Under the influence of the October Revolution in 1917 and after reading Lenin’s Theses on the Nation and Colonia Questions, in Decmeber 1920, Nguyen Ai Quoc participated in the 18th Congress of the French Socialist Party, voted for the Party to join the Third Intenational of the Communist International, and became one of the founders of the French Communist Party. From a patriot to a communist, he affirmed that the revolutionary road of national liberation in the nex period was through Marxism-Leninsm and the teachings of the great October Revolution.
In 1921, with some patriots from the French Colonies, Nguyen Ai Quoc founded the Union Intercolonial of France. In April 1922, the Union published “Le- Paria” to unite, organize and guide the movement of national liberation in the colonies. Many of his articles were included in the famous pamphlet “French colonization on Trial” published in 1925. This is research on the nature of colonialism which woke up and encouraged colonized peoples to rise up to liberate themselves. In June 1923, Nguyen Ai Quoc came to the Soviet Union from France. He worked in the Communist International. In October 1923, at the First Congress of the Peasants’ International, Nguyen Ai Quoc was elected to the Executive Committee of the Peasants’ International. He was the only representative of the colonized peasants designated in the Presidium of the Executive Committee. He participated in the Fifth Congress of the Communist International, the IVth Congress of the Youth Communist Intenational, and the Congress of the Red Trade Union International. He persevered in protecting and creatively developing the ideas of Lenin on nation and colony issues, and directed the concerns of the Communist International to the movement of national liberation. Nguyen Ai Quoc was appointed the standing member of the Oriental Section and was directly in charge of the Board for the South.
In November 1924, Nguyen Ai Quoc came to Guangzhou, China to select a number of young Vietnamese young patriots living there to open a Political Cadres Training School. His lectures were compiled into the book “Duong Kach menh” (The Revolutionary Path)- an important theoretical document and idea basis for the revolutionary derection of Vietnam. In 1925, he established the Vietnam Association of Revolutionary Young Comrades, published the weekly Thanh Nien (Youth) journal- the first revolutionary journal of Vietnam, with the aim to disseminate Marxims-Leninsm in Vietnam and made preparations for founding the Communist Party of Vietnam.
In May 1927, Nguyen Ai Quoc left Guangzhou for Moscow, the Berlin, and to Burssels (Belgium) to take part in the open meeting of the AntiImperialist War Conference. After that, he went to Italy, and from there he prepared to return to Asia.
From July 1928 to November 1929, he operated in the movement mobilizing overseas Vietnamese patriots in Siam (Thailand) and continued to prepare for the establishment of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
In spring 1930, he covened a conference for the founding of the Party in kowloon near, Hong Kong Island. The Confrence passed the Ouline Programme, Outline Strategy and the Outline Statute of the Communist Party of Vietnam (in October 1930 renamed the Indochinese Communist Party). This Party had been the vanguard of the Vietnamese working class and people, assuming the leadership of the revolution for Vietnamese national liberation. Just after its founding, the Communist Party of Vietnam led a revolutionary high tide (1930-1931), its highest peak being the Nghe Tinh Soviet, the first dress rehearsal of the August Revolution of 1945.
In June 1931, Nguyen Ai Quoc was illegally arrested by the British imperialists in Hong Kong. This was an arduous and glorious time in the active life of Nguyen Ai Quoc. In spring 1933, he was set free.
From 1934 to 1938, he studied at the Institute of Research on National and Colonia Problems in Moscow. Persevering with the way defined for Vietnamese revolution, he continued to watch and assume guidance of the domestic revolutionary movement.
In October 1938, from the Soviet Union he went to China to get in touch with the Party’s organization and find a way home.
On 28 january 1941, he returned to the homeland after more than thirty years of activity abroad. He was deeply moved by the scene of his beloved country when passing the border.
In May 1941, he convened the 8th Plenum of the Party Central Committee, to decide the national salvation line in the new period, establish the Vietnam Doc Lap Dong Minh (Viet Minh) (Vietnam Independence League) set up the liberation armed force, and build the revolutionary base area.
In August 1942, taking the mame of Ho Chi Minh, representing the Vietnam Independence League and the Vietnam Branch of the International Anti- agression Association, he came to China to search for an international alliance coordinating anti- fascist actions on the Indochina battlefield. But he was arrested by the Chiang Kai - shek authorities and jailed in Kwangsi prisons. During 13 months of imprisonment, he wrote the work Nguc Trung Nhat Ky (Prison Diary) consisting of 134 poems in Chinese. In September 1943, he was set free.
In September 1944, Ho Chi Minh returned to the base area in Cao Bang. In December 1944, he gave instruction to create the Propaganda Brigade for the Liberation of Vietnam, the predecessor of the Vietnamese People s Army.
The Second World War was drawing to an end with the victory of the Soviet Union and the Allies. In May 1945, Ho Chi Minh went from Cao Bang to Tan Trao (Tuyen Quang) On his proposal, the Party National Conference and the National Congress were held at Tan Trao and decided to launch the general uprising. The National Congress appointed the Vietnam National Committee for Liberation (that is the Provisional Government) with Ho Chi Minh as President.
In August 1945, he led the people to rise up in a general insurrection to seize power in the whole country. In September, 1945 at the historical Ba Dinh Square, Ho Chi Minh solemnly read the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming the birth of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and he became the first President.
Soon after that, French colonialists provoked the war, exposing their scheme to invade Vietnam once again. Facing the extremely grave danger of invasion, President Ho Chi Minh appealed to the whole country to wage a resistance war to defend the independence and freedom of the Fatherland with the spirit: “We would rather sacrifice everything than lose our independence and be enslaved”. He initiated the Patriotic Emulation and with the Party Central Committee led the Vietnam people in carrying out the long resistance war of the entire people and in every field, mainly relying on themselves, step by step, towards victory.
In January 1951, the Second National Congress of the Party unanimously elected Ho Chi Minh as Chairman of the Vietnam Workers’ Party. Under the leadership of the Party’s Central Committee and President Ho Chi Minh, the sacred resistance war of the Vietnamese people was a great success, culminating gloriously in the historical victory at Dien Bien Phu (1954) which completely liberated the North of Vietnam.
From 1954, he and the Central Committee of the Vietnam Workers’ Party led the people in the socialist constrution of the North, strunggle for liberation of the South and reunification of the country.
In September 1960, at the Third National Congress of the Party, he stated: “This is a Congress for socialist construction in the North and for the peaceful reunification of the country” At this Congress, he was re-elecded Chaiman of the Party’s Central Committee.
In 1964, US imperialists started their war of destruction by air force against the North Ho Chi Minh said: “The war may lastfive, ten, twenty or more years, Ha noi, Hai phong and other cities and enterprises may ben destroyed; but the Vietnamese people will not be intimidated! Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom. Once victorious, our people will rebuild our country and make it even more prosperous and beautiful”.
From 1965 to 1969, together with the Partys Central Committee, Presidont Ho Chi Minh continued to lead the Vietnamese people to carry out the revolutionary cause under wartime conditions, to construct and protect the North, and struggle to liberate the South for country’s reunification.
Before passing away President Ho Chi Minh left the Vietnamese people with the historical Testament. He wrote: “My ultimate wish is that our entire Party and people, by closely joining their efforts, will build a peaceful, reunified, independent, democratic and prosperous Vietnam, and make a worthy contribution to the world revolution”.
Carrying out Ho Chi Minh’s Testament our united people have won over the destruction war by B.52 bombers of the US imperialists, forced the US government to sign the Paris Agreement on January 27, 1973, ending the aggressive war, and withdraw all their troops and satellites from the South.
In Spring 1975, with the historic Ho Chi Minh Campaign, the Vietnamese people fulfiled total liberation of the South, reunification of the country, nad realized the sacred wish of President Ho Chi Minh.
President Ho Chi Minh was a great leader of the Vietnamese people. He had creatively applied and developed Marxism- Leninsm for the specific conditions of Vietnam, and founded the Vietnam National United Front, Vietnam People’s Armed Forces and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam). He always combined closely the revolution of Vietnam with the common struggle of the world people for peace, national independence,democracy and social progress. He was a virtuous example of industry, thrift, honesty,and righteousness, with a public- spirited, selfless, extremely modest and plain character.
In 1987, Presidont Ho Chi Minh was revered as a national liberation hero and a world cultural celebrity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Nowadays, during the process of renovation and integration of the country into the world, Ho Chi Minh Thought is great spiritual property of our Party and nation, and it will forever enlighten the way of struggle of the Vietnmese people for the target of a prosperous people, powerful country, and an equitable, democratic, civilized society.
Ho Chi Minh Museum
The Museum locates on the Nha Rong Harbour-which used to be the main office of the United Tranportation Firm built at the beginning of the 20th century.From Nha Rong Harbour, on June 5th, 1911, the young man Van Ba (Ho Chi Minh’s then name) departed on board the S/S Admiral Latouche TrÐville, where he got the job of a kitchen-help, starting his travel to find a way for national salvation.The Nha Rong has become a famous vestigial structure about Ho Chi Minh and restored to be the display house on Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh City early years of 20th century and their endeavour to follow Ho Chi Minh’s teachings in building and defending the homeland.
Open days: All days of the week (except Monday and Friday morning)
Nguon: Bo Van hoa the thao va du lich
4. Ton Duc Thang Museum
The famous Ton Duc Thang Museum in Ho Chi Minh City was founded to celebrate the occasion of the late President Ton Duc Thang's centennial birthday anniversary on August 20, 1988. It is housed within the once residence of Tran Thien Khiem, the renowned Premier of the Saigon government, prior to 1975. The displays Ton Duc Thang Museum vividly represent the life and cause of President Thang.The museum has a rich collection of over 600 items, photos and documents related with the life of the former president of Vietnam. This museum, dedicated to the President Ton Duc Thang, who is commemorated as a great fighter and model patriot, is an important destination in Ho Chi Minh City. President Thang, who took over from President Ho Chi Minh in 1969, was the only Vietnamese, who was engaged in the anti-war activities of 1917 on a French warship in Black Sea. These anti-war activities played a major role in the success of the Russian October Revolution, the world's first proletarian revolution.Located in the opposite side of river Saigon, this museum with its mere collection of photographs of various world figures is not so much popular among those who are not interested in Vietnamese politics. That’s why unlike other museums of Ho Chi Minh City it is deserted most of the time.
The famous Ton Duc Thang Museum in Ho Chi Minh City was founded to celebrate the occasion of the late President Ton Duc Thang's centennial birthday anniversary on August 20, 1988. It is housed within the once residence of Tran Thien Khiem, the renowned Premier of the Saigon government, prior to 1975. The displays Ton Duc Thang Museum vividly represent the life and cause of President Thang.The museum has a rich collection of over 600 items, photos and documents related with the life of the former president of Vietnam. This museum, dedicated to the President Ton Duc Thang, who is commemorated as a great fighter and model patriot, is an important destination in Ho Chi Minh City. President Thang, who took over from President Ho Chi Minh in 1969, was the only Vietnamese, who was engaged in the anti-war activities of 1917 on a French warship in Black Sea. These anti-war activities played a major role in the success of the Russian October Revolution, the world's first proletarian revolution.Located in the opposite side of river Saigon, this museum with its mere collection of photographs of various world figures is not so much popular among those who are not interested in Vietnamese politics. That’s why unlike other museums of Ho Chi Minh City it is deserted most of the time.
5. Vietnam History Museum
Designed by French architect Delaval and established in 1927 under the auspices of the Société des études Indochinoises as the Musée Blanchard de la Brosse, this museum became the Sài Gòn National Museum in 1956. In 1975, after some renovation, it was expanded to become the Hồ Chí Minh City Historical Museum. Through its various exhibits of of cultural and ethnological artefacts the museum recounts the history of the Vietnamese people from the earliest times up to the 1930s, when the Việt Nam Communist Party was founded. The museum’s exhibits are divided according to the following topics: Prehistory; the Rise of the Hưng Kings; the Fight for Independence (1st-10th centuries); the Lý dynasty (11th-13th centuries); the Trần dynasty (13th-14th centuries); the Lê dynasty (15th-18th centuries); the Tây Sơn dynasty (18th-19th centuries); and the Nguyễn dynasty (19th-middle of the 20th centuries). A second part of the museum displays specific characteristics of the southern area of Việt Nam, such as Óc-Eo culture, the ancient culture of the Mekong Delta, Chăm bronze statuettes and sandstone works from Quảng Nam and Binh Đình Provinces, Bến Nghé Sài Gòn art, the Vietnamese ethnic minorities and ancient pottery of various Asian countries. The museum houses a small water puppet theatre and incorporates an important historical research
Designed by French architect Delaval and established in 1927 under the auspices of the Société des études Indochinoises as the Musée Blanchard de la Brosse, this museum became the Sài Gòn National Museum in 1956. In 1975, after some renovation, it was expanded to become the Hồ Chí Minh City Historical Museum. Through its various exhibits of of cultural and ethnological artefacts the museum recounts the history of the Vietnamese people from the earliest times up to the 1930s, when the Việt Nam Communist Party was founded. The museum’s exhibits are divided according to the following topics: Prehistory; the Rise of the Hưng Kings; the Fight for Independence (1st-10th centuries); the Lý dynasty (11th-13th centuries); the Trần dynasty (13th-14th centuries); the Lê dynasty (15th-18th centuries); the Tây Sơn dynasty (18th-19th centuries); and the Nguyễn dynasty (19th-middle of the 20th centuries). A second part of the museum displays specific characteristics of the southern area of Việt Nam, such as Óc-Eo culture, the ancient culture of the Mekong Delta, Chăm bronze statuettes and sandstone works from Quảng Nam and Binh Đình Provinces, Bến Nghé Sài Gòn art, the Vietnamese ethnic minorities and ancient pottery of various Asian countries. The museum houses a small water puppet theatre and incorporates an important historical research
6. Women's Museum Of South Vietnam
202 Vo Thi Sau Street, District 3
This building once belonged to Nguyen Ngoc Loan, Director of the General Police Department under the former Saigon government. In 1984, it was turned into the Traditional House of Nam Bo Women. Later, another four-storey building was added and the whole complex became the Nam Bo Women's Museum.
This building once belonged to Nguyen Ngoc Loan, Director of the General Police Department under the former Saigon government. In 1984, it was turned into the Traditional House of Nam Bo Women. Later, another four-storey building was added and the whole complex became the Nam Bo Women's Museum.
The 2,000 sq. m display area of the museum is divided into 10 rooms, each showing the tradition of national construction and defense of Nam Bo Women. A 500-seat meeting hall, a movie theatre, a library and a boutique are also included in the complex.
The Nam Bo Women's Museum opened in 1985 as a center for educational and cultural activities, traditional meetings, scientific seminars and cultural exchanges for women. The museum aims to preserve and highlight the fine traditions of women.
7. 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.
7. 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.
