MUSEUMS IN VIET NAM

This information is given with best possible intentions however we cannot offer satisfaction guaranteed given diversity and tastes. Information and contacts are correct at time of publication however is subject to change – please reconfirm details locally to avoid disappointment. The venues are arranged in alphabetical order within the destinations. Some Museums are larger with impressive facilities and collections that are well maintained with both Vietnamese and English signs, while others are much more modest and with Vietnamese only captions

HA NOI

AIR FORCE MUSEUM (Bảo Tàng Phòng Không- Không Quân)

- Address: 173C Truong Chinh Street, Khuong Mai , Thanh Xuan District, Ha Noi. - Phone: 0983600253 - Website: n/a - Opening days and hours: 08:00-11:00 & 13:00-16:00. Open all days in week except Friday (group only). Saturday, Sunday, Holidays: 08:00-11:00 & 13:00-16:30 - Entrance: 30,000/adult. 15.000 VND/child (foreigners) - Short description: There's an abundance of MIGs, helicopters, army trucks, radar, artillery pieces, tanks, etc. Much of the equipment was given to the Vietnamese by the USSR and one piece even came to them from the Germans by way of the Soviets. One of the pieces is a huge helicopter in back. There's also the wreckage of an American jet aircraft from a carrier.

ARMY MUSEUM (new name: military history museum)

- Address: 28A Dien Bien Phu Street, Ba Dinh District, Ha Noi. - Phone: (024) 3823 4264 - Website: http://www.btlsqsvn.org.vn - Opening days and hours: 8:00 – 11:30 & 13:00 – 16:30. Open all days in week except Monday & Friday - Entrance: 40.000 VND Photography: 30.000 VND/one Video: + Under 1 hour: 300.000 VND/one + 1-2 hours: 400.000 VND/one + 2-3 hours: 500.000 VND/one - Short description: This repository of Vietnam's military history includes war propaganda, photographs and documents from wars against China, France, and the United States. The grounds feature several captured aircraft as well as a central structure build from the wreckage of French and American planes. Visitors may climb the flag tower, with great views from the top.

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ETHNOLOGY MUSEUM (Bảo tàng dân tộc học)

- Address: Nguyen Van Huyen St, Cau Giay district - Phone: (024) 3756 2193/38360352 ext 29 - Website: http://www.vme.org.vn - Opening days and hours: 8:30 – 17:30 in weekdays (closed Mondays & Lunar New Year period). - Admission and others: General admission: 40,000 VND/ticket Exhibition guide tour: Vietnamese: 50,000 VND/time, English/French: 100,000VND/time Photography: Non profession: 50,000 VND/time, Professional: 500,000VND/time Video: Non professional: 50,000 VND, Professional video: upon request - Short description: The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology is a unit under the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism City. Both a research centre and a public museum exhibiting the ethnic groups of Vietnam. The mission of the Museum is scientific research, collection, documentation, conservation, exhibition and preserving the cultural and historic patrimony of the nation's different ethnic groups.

FINE ART MUSEUM

- Address: 66 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street - Phone: (024) 3823 3084 - Website: http://vnfam.vn/ - Opening days and hours: 8h30 - 17h00 in week (Lunar New Year is closed) - Admission: Adults: 40,000 VND/ College-age students: 20,000 VND/ Children (6-16 yrs): 10,000 VND/ Children (under 6yrs): Free/ Guide Tour: 150,000 VND (Vietnamese, English, French, Chinese) - Short description: This museum was opened in 1966. Though in need of updating, some interesting artifacts are on display in its three floors organized chronologically.

HO CHI MINH MUSEUM

- Address: 158/ 19 Ngoc Ha, Doi Can Ward, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi - Phone: 024 3846 3757/ 024 384 55 435 - Website: http://www.baotanghochiminh.vn/ - Opening days and hours: Week days 8:00 -12:00 & 14:00 - 16:30 (Monday & Friday 8:00-12:00) - Entrance: 40,000 VND - Short description: Existing in the same complex with "Uncle Ho's" mausoleum, the Museum provides a comprehensive overview of his life and leadership for Vietnamese in - dependence from the early 1940s until his death in 1979.

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HO CHI MINH MAUSOLEUM (Lăng Bác)

- Address: Hung Vuong, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi - Phone: (04) 3845 5128 - Website: http://www.bqllang.gov.vn/ - Opening days and hours: Summer (1 April- 31 Oct): 7h30 - 10h30. Saturday, Sunday, Holiday 7h30- 11h Winter (1 November – 31 March): 8h00 - 11h00 (morning). Saturday, Sunday, Holiday 8h00- 11h30 Close on Monday & Friday weekly. Always open on 19 May, 2 Sep, 1st Lunar New Year. - Entrance: Free - Short description: is the historic place where ‘Uncle Ho’ read the Vietnam Manifesto on September 2nd, 1945. There are always two guard men dressed in white uniforms standing at the main entrance every day.

HOA LO PRISON MUSEUM (THE ‘HANOI HILTON’)

- Address: No. 1 Hoa Lo, Hoan Kiem Distict, Hanoi - Phone: (024) 3934 2253 - Website: www.hoalo.vn - Opening days and hours: Monday – Sunday: 8:00 - 17:00 - Entrance: 30,000 VND - Short description: This thought-provoking site is all that remains of the former Hoa Lo Prison, ironically nicknamed the ‘Hanoi Hilton’ by US POWs during the American War. Most exhibits relate to the prison’s use up to the mid-1950s, focusing on the Vietnamese struggle for independence from France. A gruesome relic is the ominous French guillotine, used to behead Vietnamese revolutionaries. There are also displays focusing on the American pilots who were incarcerated at Hoa Lo during the American War.

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VIETNAM NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HISTORY

- Address: 1 Trang Tien Street, 216 Tran Quang Khai Street, Hanoi The first building is in No 1 Trang Tien Street (Prehistoric period to Nguyen dynasty, 1945) The second building is in 216 Tran Quang Khai Street (modern history (1858 to present) - Phone: 024 38241 384 – 024 38257 753 - Website: baotanglichsu.vn - Opening days and hours: Monday to Sunday (first Monday each month is closed). 8:00 – 12:00 & 13:30 – 17:00. Still open if holidays are on Monday. - Entrance: 40,000 VND Photography: 15.000 VND/one Video: 30.000 VND/one

- Short description: In the system of national museums, the National Museum of Vietnam History was early founded on the material basis of the Louis Finot, a museum of the Ecole Française d’Extreme-Orient which was built in 1926 and completed in 1932. In 1958, the Vietnam Government officially took over this cultural building and started to research, collect and supplement materials and objects, converting the contents from eastern arts into national history. On 3 September 1958, the National Museum of Vietnam History was officially opened for visitors..

VIETNAMESE WOMEN MUSEUM

- Address: 36 Ly Thuong Kiet street, Hoan Kiem ward, Ha Noi - Phone: (+84-24) 38259936 - Website: http://baotangphunu.org.vn/ - Opening days and hours: Monday to Sunday 8:00 - 17:00 - Entrance: 30,000 VND - Short description: Focused on the contribution of women to Vietnam's history and culture, this museum highlights their roles in Vietnam's many military conflicts as well as in commerce, including features on female street vendors, women's role in the family, and more recently, single mothers in Vietnam.

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NORTH OF VIETNAM

MUSEUM OF DIEN BIEN PHU VICTORY, DIEN BIEN PROVINCE

- Address: 279 Muong Thanh Opposite the cemetery of Vietnamese martyrs in Hill A1. - Phone: +84 215 3828 208 - Website: http://btctlsdienbienphu.svhttdldienbien.gov.vn/ - Opening days and hours: Monday- Sunday 7:00-11:00 & 13:30-18:00 (in summer). Winter: close at 17h – 17h30 - Entrance: 15,000 VND/person/place (4 places in total). Teenager under 18 years old is free. Over 60 years old: discount 50% - Short description: The museum was built in 1984 in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory. The museum was upgraded in late 2003 and its exhibition sections reorganized. The museum has five exhibition sections, featuring 274 items and 122 pictures, many of which are newly added, about the 8-year resistance against the French colonialists.

THE MUONG'S CULTURAL MUSEUM, HOA BINH - Address: 202 Tay Tien Street - Hoa Binh city – Hoa Binh Province - Phone: 0913553937 - Website: http://muong.vn/en/ - Opening days and hours: 07:30-17:30 every day including weekends - Entrance: 50.000 VND/person - Other services: Tour guide: Vietnamese: 100,000 VND/tour, English & French: 120,000 VND/tour Photography & Video; Non professional: 100,000 VND/camera, Professional: 400,000 VND/camera - Short description: Rooted deep inspiration of a young artist with a desire to recreate the entire living space of the Muong after 10 years of collecting and building almost 1 year. Museum is located 80km west of Hanoi in the Hoa Binh city center - the capital of the province of the ethnic Muong. The Museum is the first private museum on the Muong ethnic culture, a nation of people with a long tradition in the family culture of the people of Vietnam.

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CENTER OF VIET NAM

DA NANG MUSEUM OF CHAM SCULPTURE, DANANG

- Address: No. 02, 2 September Street, City - Phone: (84-236) 3574801 - Website: http://chammuseum.vn/en/ - Opening days and hours: 07:00 to 17:00 everyday - Entrance: 60,000 VND/person - Short description: The Museum’s first building was opened in 1919, but many Cham sculptures collected in Da Nang, Quang Nam and elsewhere were brought to the site over the preceding twenty years. In 2002, the Museum was again extended with the two-storey building provide an extra 1000 square meters. The new building provides space for display, storage, a library, restoration workshop and offices for staff.

MUSEUM OF TAY NGUYEN MULTI-BATTALION, PLEIKU (Bảo tàng Binh đoàn Tây Nguyên)

- Address: Le Duan Street, Thang Loi Ward, Pleiku City. - Phone: 069729562; 01634408269 ( Mr Minh) - Website: n/a - Opening days and hours: 7:00 to 11:00 / 13:30 to 17:00, daily - Entrance: Free - Short description: Highlands Museum Corps, established in March 26, 2005, under the Propaganda Department - the Department of Political Affairs Group. Highlands Museum Legion of categories military history is responsible for research, collection, inventory, display, dissemination introduce documents and valuables history, culture, science, reflects the process of building, fighting, growing up in the industrial armies of national liberation, ...

MUSEUM OF XO VIET NGHE TINH, VINH

- Address: 10 Dao Tan street, Vinh City, Nghe An Province - Phone: (02383) 580 028 - Website: http://btxvnt.org.vn - Opening days and hours: 7:00 to 12:00/ 13:30 to 17:00 Monday – Saturday. - Entrance: Free - Short description: Type: the memorial museum of historical events Nghe Tinh Soviet movement 1930-1931. Functions: Scientific research and education about traditional Nghe Tinh Soviet movement. Responsibilities: Research, collection and inventory of stored materials and artifacts related to the history event Xo Viet Nghe Tinh. Display the introduction Nghe Tinh Soviet movement to serve visitors at the museum, bring the traditional education Xo Viet Nghe Tinh to people come with different regions in the province. Serve staff, students, students studying mining materials on Xo Viet Nghe Tinh is currently kept at the museum; Serve locally in two provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh Party building history, verification documentation for those who have contributed to the revolution.

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DA NANG CITY MUSEUM

- Address: No. 24 Tran Phu Str, Da Nang City - Phone: (84.236) 3 886 236 – 3 822 390. - Website: www.baotangdanang.vn - Opening days and hours: 08:00 to 17:00 everyday - Entrance: 20,000 VND/ person. - Short description: Da Nang Museum covers a three-storey display area of 3,000 m2. It introduces more than 2,500 valuable documents, photographs and exhibits about the history and culture of Da Nang and its surrounding areas. They include more than 1,900 originals which have been collected since Liberation Day in 1975.

VINAHOUSE SPACE – MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE & HANDICRAFTS, HOI AN

- Address: Road 608 (Hoi An Vinh Dien), Dien Ban, Quang Nam - Phone: (+84) 235 3717888 - (+84) 235 3717999 - Website: http://www.vinahousespace.com - Opening days and hours: 06:00 to 16:00, daily - Entrance: 99,000 VND/person (free for FIT, GIT) - Short description: VINAHOUSE SPACE is Vietnam’s largest architecture museum, displaying numerous traditional houses from 18th to 20th century which have been relocated. It also displays a craft center with wood carving and traditional cooking methods.

PRECIOUS HERITAGE ART GALLERY MUSEUM (RÉHAHN MUSEUM) - Address: 26 Phan Boi Chau, Cam Chau, Hoi An, Quang Nam - Phone: (+84) 911330557 - Website: http://preciousheritageproject.com/ - Opening days and hours: Daily 8:00 am – 8:00 pm - Entrance: Free - Short description: Precious heritage art gallery museum is a collection of Réhahn, who has spent the past seven years exploring the ethnic community in Vietnam. This is as part of his biggest and most challenging project conducting about costume, artefacts and portrait photography when visiting 49 out of the 54 documented ethnic groups, scattered all over the country.

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HO CHI MINH CITY

AO DAI MUSEUM

- Address: Ao Dai museum: 206/19/30, Long Thuan, Long Phuoc ward, District 9, HCMC Ao Dai exhibition: floor 2, 77 Nguyen Hue blvd, District 1 - Phone: (+84) 914 912 982 (Museum)- 0938391208 (Exhibition) - Website: http://baotangaodaivietnam.com/gioi-thieu.html - Opening days and hours: Everyday 8:30 - 17:30 except Monday (museum) Every day 9:00 - 18:00 (exhibition)

- Entrance fees: Museum: 100,000 VND per person. Children: 30.000 VND. Teacher: 50.000VND Free for children under 2 years old. Exhibition: 100,000 VND/ adult, 50,000 VND/ children. - Short description: Ao Dai is a representative of Vietnam and designer Hoang has built up Ao Dai museum to preserve its beauty and its value for next generation to continue to keep this priceless traditional costume. This museum took 12 years to finish by contribution of different architectures from different regions of Vietnam. The museum locates quite outside of (District 9) which requires to takes around 40 minutes transfer by road.

CU CHI TUNNELS

- Address: Phu Hiep Hamlet, Phu My Hung , Cu Chi district - Phone: (028) 37948 830 - Website: http://diadaocuchi.com.vn/ - Opening days and hours: Every day 07:00 – 17:00 (through lunch) - Entrance fees: 110,000 VND - Short description: The Real legends from the Tunnel beyond human imagination. Just get under a tunnel passage, you will understand why small countries Vietnam could defeat the enemy is a big country and the richest. Why Cu Chi, poor land to cope uninterrupted for 21 years with an army of more than multiples, combative, equipped with weapons and implements of war modern art.

FINE ART MUSEUM (Bảo tàng Mỹ Thuật)

- Address: 97a Pho Duc Chinh, Nguyen Thai Binh Ward, District 1 - Phone: (028) 38.294.441 – 38.216.331 - Website: N/A - Opening days and hours: 6days/week (Tuesday - Sunday). 08:00 – 18:00 - Entrance fees: 30.000 VND - Short description: The Fine Arts museum is a restored home with sixteen showrooms displaying paintings, pottery, sculpture and even some weapons.

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HO CHI MINH FITO MUSEUM (The Museum of Vietnamese Traditional Medicine)* - Address: 41 Hoang Du Khuong, ward 12, District 10 - Phone: (028)38-642-430 - Website: http://www.fitomuseum.com.vn - Opening days and hours: Every day. 08:30 – 17:00 - Entrance fees: 120,000VND/adult. 60,000VND/child (less than 1.2m) - Short description: The first Museum of Traditional Vietnamese Medicine (FITO): Nearly 3,000 items relevant to traditional Vietnamese medicine dating back to the Stone Age. Implements used to prepare traditional medicine: knives, grinders, mortars and pestles, pots and jars. Objects found in a traditional pharmacy: scale, cabinet, advertising board, printing mold, spirit gourd, tea pot, bowl, lime pot and other ceramic articles. - Books and documents on traditional Vietnamese medicine. Equipped with modern audio-visual technology, the museum regularly screens "A Century of Health Care Experiences", a documentary film about the history of Vietnam's traditional medicine.

HCMC MUSEUM (Bảo tàng Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh)

- Address: 65 Ly Tu Trong, District 1, HCMC - Phone: (028) 38-299-741 - Website: http://www.hcmc-museum.edu.vn/ - Opening days and hours: Every day. 7:30-18:00 (Included holidays) - Entrance fees: 15,000 VND/Adult. Children (under 6yrs): Free - Short description: The building was built in 1885 – 1890, designed by the French architect Foulhoux was built from 1885 – 1890. It was designed by Alfred Foulhoux, a French architect, blending the Occidental style with Oriental style. The building was originally intended for use as the Commercial museum exhibiting native specialties, but it became the Cochinchine governor’s palace.

MUSEUM OF HO CHI MINH (Bảo tàng Hồ Chí Minh/ Bến nhà rồng)

- Address: 01 Nguyễn Tất Thành, district 4, HCMC - Phone: (028) 38255740 - 39401053 - Website: http://www.baotanghochiminh-nr.vn/ - Opening days and hours: 7:30- 11:30 and 13:30- 17:00 (Tuesday to Sunday) - Entrance fees: Free - Short description: 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 endeavor to follow Ho Chi Minh’s teachings in building and defending the homeland.

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MUSEUM OF HISTORY (Bảo tàng Lịch sử Việt Nam)

- Address: 2 Nguyen Binh Khiem, District 1 - Phone: (028) 38.298146 - 38.290268 - Website: http://baotanglichsuvn.com/ - Opening days and hours: Every day 8:00-11:30 & 13:30 – 17:00 - Entrance: 30.000 VND - Short description: this collection of historical treasures and artifacts is one of the few Vietnamese museums with helpful English explanations.

SOUTHERN WOMAN MUSEUM (Bảo tàng phụ nữ Nam Bộ)

- Address: 202 Vo Thi Sau strict, District 3, HCMC - Phone: (84.28) 39.320.322- 39.325.690 - Website: http://www.baotangphunu.com/ - Opening days and hours: Every day 08:00 – 11:30 & 13:30 – 17:30 - Entrance: Free - Short description: Founded on April 29th 1985, the Southern Women Museum at 202 Vo Thi Sau St., Ward 7, District 3, HCMC, has become a place of interest for local tourists, especially women and foreign visitors to Ho Chi Minh City. Southern Women Museum was formerly named “Southern Women’s Memorial House” set up in accordance with desires and wills of previous women generation to preserve, educate the next generations patriotism and national traditions of Vietnamese women.

TON DUC THANG MUSEUM (Bảo tàng Tôn Đức Thắng)

- Address: 5 Ton Duc Thang street, District 1 - Phone: (028)38.297542 - (028)38.290791 - Website: http://www.baotangtonducthang.com/ - Opening days and hours: Every day ( except Monday) 08:00 – 11:30 & 13:30 – 16:30 - Entrance: Free - Short description: this museum is the only place in the country to fairly fully and systematically introduce about President Ton Duc Thang. On this ground, with the system of 7 permanent exhibition rooms and 1 special short-term exhibition rooms at the museum, at the vestiges relating to Uncle Ton and through the mass media, Ton Duc Thang museum has contributed its voice in the front of ideology, culture, traditional education, ideal improvement for the working class, enhancing the national pride in the people and Vietnamese youth.

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WAR REMNANTS MUSEUM (Bảo tàng Chứng tích Chiến tranh)

- Address: 28 Vo Van Tan street, district 3, HCMC - Phone: (+84) 28 3930 5587 - (+84) 28 3930 6664 - Website: http://www.baotangchungtichchientranh.vn - Opening days and hours: Every day 07:30 – 18:00 - Entrance: 40.000 VND/person - Short description: War Remnants Museum is a unit under the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Ho Chi Minh City. Located in the museum system of Vietnam, the museum for world peace and a member of the World Council of Museums (ICOM), the War Remnants Museum, the Museum of thematic research, collection, storage, preservation and display of the material, photographs, artifacts on the evidence of the crime and the consequences of the war that the invasion force has caused to Vietnam. Museum store more than 20,000 documents, exhibits and films, in which more than 1,500 documents, artifacts, films have been applied to introduce in eight the exhibition frequently.

3D MUSEUM

- Address: 9th Road Street, Him Lam Residence, Tan Hung Ward, District 7. - Phone: 028 62983767 - Website: http://artinusvn.com/ - Opening days and hours: Weekday: 9:00-18:00 (last tourist: 17:00) , weekend and holiday: 9:00- 20:00 (last tourist: 19:00) - Entrance: Weekday 200,000 VND/adult; 150.000 VND/child. Weekend 250,000 VND/adult; 200.000 VND/child. - Short description: 3D Museum was established in 2015 with over 4000m2, 9 different areas gives the visitor the different feeling from romance, thrill, overwhelmed, funny etc. With more than 15 artists from Korea to the soul in the 3D picture making art form solutions this new location to attract young people in the city and is now available in the large city in the country.

SOUTH OF VIET NAM

BINH DUONG FITO MUSEUM (Museum of Traditional Vietnamese Pharmacy)

- Address: 26 Bis, Vinh Phu Ward, Thuan An, Binh Duong - Phone: +84 274 743210 - Website: http://www.fitomuseum.com.vn - Opening days and hours: Monday- Saturday, 08:30 – 17:00 - Entrance fees: 120,000VND/adult. 60,000VND/child (less than 1.2m) - Short description: The Museum of Traditional Vietnamese Pharmacy (FITO) is a large museum in southern Vietnamese architectural style with 2000 m2 area. There are nearly 600 paintings of medicinal plants which is a part of the 1000 pcs collection of hand-painted herbs images.

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CAN THO MUSEUM

- Address: 1 Hoa Binh, Tan An, Ninh Kieu, Can Tho city - Phone: (+84 292) 3820 955/ 3818075 - Website: n/a - Opening days and hours: + Monday - Saturday: 8:00-11:00 & 14:00-17:00 + Sunday: 8:00-11:00 & 14:00-21:00 + National Holidays: still open - Entrance: Free - Short description: Can Tho Museum is located at Hoa Binh Avenue, Can Tho city with the area of 2,700 square meters and was established in 1976. Through many times of change, it has officially been named Can Tho museum since 1992. Can Tho museum is the largest general museum with more than 5,000 objects and valuable historical relics in the .

MILITIRY MUSEUM REGION IX

- Address: 6 Hoa Binh street, Ninh Kieu ward, Can Tho City - Phone: (0292) 3822.173/07103 814.764 - Website: link - Opening days and hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 8:00-11:00 & 14:00-16:00, Saturday: 8:00- 11:00 & 19:00-21:00 - Entrance: Free - Short description: Museum of categories military history research task, collection, inventory, display, propaganda material introduced, artifacts reflecting the process of building, fighting, mature force page Southwest Military Region IX in the struggle for national liberation, unification, construction and national defense. Military Region IX covers the territory and population of the provinces of An Giang, Dong Thap, Tien Giang, Ben Tre, Tra Vinh, Vinh Long, Can Tho, Hau Giang, Soc Trang, Bac Lieu, Kien Giang and Ca Mau. Command closed military zone in the city of Can Tho.

TAY NINH MUSEUM

- Address: 44 Hoang Le Kha, Ward 3, Tay Ninh city. - Phone: 0276.3822562 – 0276.3810353 - 0276.3922535 (Ms. Sử) - Website: http://baotang.tayninh.gov.vn - Opening days and hours: Monday-Saturday, Sunday off. 7:30-11:30 & 13:30-17:00 - Entrance: Free - Short description: Tay Ninh Museum was established in 1980, under the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, located in the national museum system. Tay Ninh Provincial Museum has really become the research, preservation and promotion of cultural heritage value of tangible and intangible. So far the museum has seen a sharp growth by investing resources, infrastructure and organizational structure. - Note: in the same place with Cultural Centre, not many things to see at present.

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MUSEUM OF BA RIA-VUNG TAU

- Address: 4 Tran Phu, Vung Tau city - Phone: 0254 3852421 - Website: http://www.baotangbrvt.org.vn - Opening days and hours: in progress - Entrance: n/a - Short description: Ba Ria - Vung Tau museum is a research institution for research, manage, restoration and renovation to promote the cultural heritage system of Ba Ria province. Where to collect and to display many original materials such as archeological areas, antiques, traditional crafts, ethnographic, etc.

MUSEUM OF WORLDWIDE ARMS

- Address: 98 Tran Hung Dao St, Ward 1, Vung Tau city. - Phone: 0254 3818369/ 0908.367.566 - Website: http://baotangroberttaylor.com/ - Opening days and hours: 8:00 to 17:00 every day, close on Lunar New Year Holiday - Entrance: 100,000 VND/ adult (oversea visitor) and 70,000 VND/ adult (local), 35,000 VND/person (6-11 years old) - Short description: With collection of antique weapons, this museum was firstly established in May 2012 by Mr Robert Taylor. After a short time closure as of owners’ conflict, it was reopened at Tran Hung Dao Street and renovated with more collections.

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