The Museum Trail of Saigon, Saigon/HoChiMinh City, Vietnam

While Saigon is often celebrated for its high-octane, modern energy, beneath the relentless pulse of the modern metropolis lies a city of storied wallls.

In order to truly understand Saigon, one has to step into its many great museums: standing in the shadow of a fighter at the War Remnants Museum, exploring the command centers beneath the Independence Palace, or admiring the predecessor culture at the History Museum.

In this guide, I have compiled some of the most fascinating and best-kept museums in Saigon, as a way for you to enter into the city’s vibrant past and present.

This guide will walk you through the key sites which can be visited while you are exploring this destination. Hence, without further ado…

Opened in 2007 in effort to preserve the long-standing heritage of Y Hoc Co Truyen, this is the first private museum in Vietnam dedicated to traditional medicine, honouring a number of iconic physicians such as Tue Tinh and Hai Thuong Lan Ong.

An interesting exhibit you can find is a meticulously recreated old-world apothecary storing hundreds of herbs within intricate wooden drawers!

Established in 1985 on a former residence of a South Vietnamese government official, this museum now exhiits more than 30,000 artefacts, among others including househoold tools and weapons used by female guerrilla fighters. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).