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Revision as of 23:30, 9 October 2012 by 23.29.113.66 (talk) (Undid revision 516901880 by Nguyen1310 (talk) explanation is true.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The War Remnants Museum (Template:Lang-vi) is a war museum at 28 Vo Van Tan, in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It primarily contains exhibits relating to the American phase of the Vietnam War.
History
Operated by the Vietnamese government, the museum was opened in September 1975 as "The House for Displaying War Crimes of American Imperialism and the Puppet Government ." Later, it was renamed as the Museum of American War Crimes, then as the War Crimes Museum until as recently as 1993.
Its current name follow the normalization of diplomatic relations with the United States.
Exhibits
The museum comprises a series of themed rooms in several buildings, with period military equipment placed within a walled yard. The military equipment includes a UH-1 "Huey" helicopter, an F-5A fighter, a BLU-82 "Daisy Cutter" bomb, M48 Patton tank, an A-1 Skyraider attack bomber, and an A-37 Dragonfly attack bomber.
One building reproduces the "tiger cages" in which the South Vietnamese government allegedly kept political prisoners. Other exhibits include graphic photography, accompanied by a short text in English, Vietnamese and Japanese, covering the effects of Agent Orange and other chemical defoliant sprays, the use of napalm and phosphorus bombs, and "American war atrocities" such as the My Lai massacre. The photographic display includes work by Vietnam War photojournalist Bunyo Ishikawa that he donated to the museum in 1998. Curiosities include a guillotine used by the French and the South Vietnamese to execute prisoners, the last time being in 1960, and three jars of preserved human fetuses allegedly deformed by exposure to dioxin. There are a number of pieces of unexploded ordnance stored in the corner of the yard, seemingly with their charges and/or fuses removed.
Gallery
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Entrance to the War Remnants Museum
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War Remnants Museum Main Building
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Display of anti-war artwork by Vietnamese children.
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Unexploded ordnance on display in the corner of Museum's courtyard.
References
10°46′46″N 106°41′32″E / 10.779475°N 106.692132°E / 10.779475; 106.692132
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