Transformation of Saigon (7)--history

Ho Chi Minh City Museum of history (History Museum) is my English tour guide book listed as "must go" spots, and Notre-Dame, ancient Shiba road, etc., plus I had each to a new country or city, have a walk to the Museum's habits, so the last morning one day open to it.

(From Pham Ngu Lao taxi past, about 3 million guilders, next door to the Zoo. Ho Chi Minh City has several museums, foreign tourists most often go, drivers most cooked is a war crime Museum, War Museum, be careful not to mistake, go to the Zoo may be more convenient. ）

The Museum's main building looks like a big family courtyard, two and three rooms, plus a patio, a cloister.

Tickets are $ 1 15000 shield or without a guide, you can only see their own (text in English and Viet Nam). The door can obtain several main text of the booklet, there is Chinese.

Pavilion of basic chronological order, that is, from prehistoric times through to Vietnam.

Exhibition Hall on the primitive society were some of the stone, ceramic, most major exhibits is a bark canoe-making, said this was the introduction of Viet Nam area-specific "coffins" primitive society. You could put some of the tombs of unearthed arrows clump or something, but I found it actually has two was copper iron knife-coins, this was a bit funny: do not know what to the warring States era stuff through time and space to BC 2500 years of Viet Nam.

According to Viet Nam's myths and legends, 2500 years BC to 200 years BC, ruled that they called a Viet Nam "male King" (English is Hung King), the leader of the title of this approx. "Chieftain" level, there is a generation to generation.

The legendary King were essentially male half-human, half-gods and heroes, there are a lot of victory over the beast, Monster, natural disasters, etc. Reunification Palace of a Hall, there is a performance-large frescoes of the legend of the King.

Other individual exhibition of historical heritage in the exhibition, looks not very high value, after all, not the relationship between the capital Museum.

However from porcelain, appliances, and other style, were plains culture Viet Nam cultural influence is far better than other Southeast Asian countries, statues, flowers and birds, and even character, and the Central Plains of don't not, not like Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, rou into indigenous, Islamic and Indian elements.

Information:

7, Hall (Le Korean heritage) is currently in maintenance, exhibits.

Reminder:

4, Pavilion exhibited in Ho Chi Minh unearthed two around 1869, and was buried in a coffin in which a female mummies found in.

On this "theme" acceptance cone cautiously into low.

Starting from Cho Hall, almost each Hall has Viet Nam people against the "intruder", oil painting, game boards, maps, weapons and so on, which "intruder" includes the song, Yuan, Ming and Qing army.

In addition, with the various dynasties, the front end of Nguyen Thi dynastic describes quite negative, said it externally and against incompetence, in a Word is devoid of stupid.

My meanest: is to avoid people in memory of former leading restoration?

Museum of history, another key aspect is that it incorporates a traditional water puppet-Viet Nam (water puppet show) little theatre.

The "stage" is a small pond, performances of manipulators behind the Green curtain behind with a long pole in front of the puppet to take various actions. Because most of the time course is not in the water, look that was hiding in the underwater manipulation. The show plays including "Dragon play bead", "lion" and other traditional propitious xiwen, and some reflect how the farming life Viet Nam's comedy.

20 minutes of charging 47000 shield (probably).

(Buy tickets when I've been selling tickets little mm as Viet Nam, waterfalls Khan ... ）

Water puppet shows in Ho Chi Minh City in a cultural performance Center also has a comparison of the fee, probably some effect is gorgeous.

You can travel to the big ask date/time (all night) and purchase tickets.