This collection was opened back in 1929. From that time until 1956, it was known as the Blanchard de la Brosse collection, then until 1979 it was called the State Museum of Saigon, and only in the early 1980s did the institution receive its current name — the Ho Chi Minh City History Museum.
Its collection introduces visitors to the history of the Vietnamese state, which spans entire millennia. Here you can see exhibits dating back to the most ancient periods — among them stone steles decorated with delicate carvings, as well as unique sculptures depicting the thousand-eyed and thousand-armed Buddha.
There are also items here that belong to the so-called Oc Eo culture and date back to approximately the 5th-6th centuries. The Ho Chi Minh City History Museum houses bronze artifacts, fired-clay exhibits, ceramics, porcelain, the clothing of officials and emperors, national musical instruments, and other items of the peoples inhabiting Vietnam.
