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 Ward, 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: Vietnam 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. 17 Sep 18 www.exotravel.com/trade 1 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 Hanoi 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 Ho Chi Minh Museum provides a comprehensive overview of his life and leadership for Vietnamese in - dependence from the early 1940s until his death in 1979. 17 Sep 18 www.exotravel.com/trade 2 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: Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum 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. 17 Sep 18 www.exotravel.com/trade 3 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. 17 Sep 18 www.exotravel.com/trade 4 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. 17 Sep 18 www.exotravel.com/trade 5 CENTER OF VIET NAM DA NANG MUSEUM OF CHAM SCULPTURE, DANANG - Address: No. 02, 2 September Street, Da Nang 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.