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NATIONAL MUSEUM OF VIETNAMESE HISTORY
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This museum offers a different and certainly unique type of experience that tourists may not expect. Not surprisingly, many visitors expect museums in Vietnam to be predominantly about the Vietnam War, as well as the struggles against foreign invaders. However, this museum cannot be more different than other conventional museums.

This museum focuses on prehistoric history up to 1945, where visitors are treated to some beautiful artefacts of Vietnamese history, archaeological jewels that have existed for thousands of years. It all makes sense when one realises that this building was originally an archaeological research centre, long before it became a museum.
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Following on these artefacts, visitors are then treated to more relics of history, such as soil samples dating back to 30,000 years B.C., as well as priceless treasures of the Le dynasty. Precious pieces of china are on display here, and one slowly gets an idea of what life must have been like in Vietnam, hundreds of years ago.
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Finishing up the tour of this museum, you would have gained a different perspective of Vietnam, where it was once more than just about the War, and that it had a much richer history than most of us thought.

INSIDER TIP:
​Your entrance ticket is really a joint ticket for both the National Museum of Vietnamese History
​and the Museum of the Vietnamese Revolution.
Make sure you walk across the street to make your ticket worthwhile! See our article on the second museum!
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