A memorable visit to War Remnants Museum

(VOV) – The War Remnants Museum at 28 Vo Van Tan St, District 3 in HCM City is a reliable place that denounces war crimes and highlights Vietnamese people’s heroic struggles for national independence.

It was built five months after the historic Ho Chi Minh campaign ended on April 30, 1975, culminating in the liberation of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) and the southern region.

The museum researches, collects, preserves and displays war crimes and their consequences in Vietnam.

It is a member of the World Peace Museum System and World Council of Museums (ICOM)

The museum is one of the major tourist attractions in HCM City, especially for foreign visitors. Many American people come here to gain a better understanding of the most destructive war in the history of Vietnam and mankind.

Last year, Trip Advisor, a renowned travel magazine, chose the museum as one of the top five most attractive museums in Asia.

Unlike other tourist attractions, visitors to the museum travel around chambers in silence, recalling the worst atrocities in the past wars in Vietnam.

The museum attracts a large number of domestic and foreign visitors every day.

Exhibits on World People Support Vietnam’s Resistance War on the basement

Photos featuring Vietnamese children during wartime

Many visitors are emotional watching images on dreadful war crime

This picture illustrates the historic Son My Massacre on March 16, 1968 in Quang Ngai province.

During the massacre, US soldiers killed 504 innocent villagers, including 182 women, 173 children and 60 elderly people.

Forty-five years ago on February 25, 1969, three children aged 6 to 10 were discovered hiding in this section of the drainpipe and killed to death by the US army in Ben Tre province. The section was then presented to the museum for display.

In this photo, a US soldier was carrying the remains of a Vietnamese soldier shot dead. Many visitors are numb with fear.

This chamber showcases the consequences of unexploded ordnance, and experts say it takes Vietnam hundreds of years to clean up contaminated soil.

A photo “Napalm girl” taken by Huynh Cong Ut has obtained many international awards. It is one of the 100 influential photos in the 20^th century selected by Columbia University.

An area exhibits the consequences of Agent Orange/Dioxin sprayed by the US military during the Vietnam War.

Between 1961 and 1971, millions of gallons of defoliants containing lethal substance dioxin were sprayed over Vietnam’s central and southern land. Around 4.8 million people were directly exposed to the toxic chemical.