War Remnants Museum | Exhibition House for Crimes of War | HCMC

War Remnants Museum | Exhibition House for Crimes of War | Ho Chi Minh City

Formerly known as the Museum of American War Crimes, it is not a museum for the sensitive as it displays instruments of torture and hundreds of photographs of atrocities committed during the 20th century and, in particular, the Vietnam War.

At the front of the museum you can see a small collection of military hardware as well as the mobile guillotine used by the French colonists to dispense justice throughout the country before World War II.

Popular with tourists, the War Remnants Museum is a war museum in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City. It primarily contains exhibits relating to the American phase of the Vietnam War.

Operated by the Vietnamese government, an incipient form of museum opened in 1975, as the “The House for Displaying War Crimes of American Imperialism and the Puppet Government”, located in the premises of the former United States Information Agency building.