History Museum

A pleasing, pagoda-style roof crowns the city's History Museum (Mon-Sat 8-11.30am & 1.30-4.30pm; Sun 8.30am-4.30pm; $1), whose main entrance is tucked just inside the gateway to the Botanical Gardens. If you want to visit the museum only, use the side entrance on Nguyen Binh Khiem to avoid paying the extra $1 for the gardens. The museum houses a train of galleries illuminating Vietnam's past from primitive times to the end of French rule by means of a decent if unastonishing array of artefacts and pictures. Other halls focus on ceramics, Buddha images from around Asia, Champa art and Vietnam's ethnic minorities. There's also a water puppetry theatre ($1).

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