Not a high-tech, interactive museum as you might see in the west, more of a photo-documentory of the 'American War' as it's known in Vietnam. Shocking, moving and disturbing at regular intervals - all tourists, in particular those of the brash, American type you see around the city, should be forcibly made to visit this museum. It shows the other... more

The War Remnants Museum is by and large a photo and weapon collection from the Vietnam/American War. Of course, it's from a Vietnamese communist viewpoint and can be a bit propagandist; but that's what makes it interesting. I found the exhibit of photos of and by famous war correspondents to be greatly moving. Additionally, I was both enlightened and appalled... more

Very interesting to see what the war meant to the Vietnamese people. I had only seen American movies and documentaries about the war and in this museum you get the communist side of the story (many south Vietnamese people worked for the Americans, the museum doesn't tell their story, it only tells about the communist victory and about what they... more