Museums in Hanoi

This preserved 19th-century tube house at 87 Ma May Street offers a rare look inside the Old Quarter's distinctive narrow, deep residential architecture.

Adjacent to the mausoleum, the Ho Chi Minh Museum chronicles the life of Vietnam's independence leader through documents, photographs, and personal effects. The Soviet-designed building opened in 1990.

Hoa Lo Prison, nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton" by American POWs, was originally built by French colonists in 1896. Today the surviving south wing serves as a museum documenting both eras of incarceration.

The Vietnamese Women's Museum documents the critical roles women have played in Vietnamese society. Renovated in 2010 with Belgian support, it is one of Hanoi's most modern and well-curated museums.

The Vietnam Military History Museum displays weaponry, vehicles, and artefacts from ancient times through the French and American wars. A B-52 bomber and MiG-21 fighter sit in the courtyard.

The National Museum of Vietnamese History traces the country's story from prehistoric Dong Son bronze drums to the modern era. Housed in a handsome 1932 French colonial building.

The Museum of the Vietnamese Revolution documents Vietnam's independence struggle from the late 19th century through reunification.

A museum tracing Vietnam's revolutionary history from anti-colonial struggles to reunification..

The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology is widely regarded as Hanoi's best museum, surveying the cultures and traditions of Vietnam's 54 recognised ethnic groups. Designed by French architect Véronique Dollfus, it opened in 1997.

An outstanding museum documenting Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups through full-scale houses and artefacts..

The Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts displays Vietnamese artistic achievement from prehistoric lacquerware to contemporary installations, in a former French colonial girls' boarding school.

Vietnam's top art museum in a colonial building, with significant collections spanning the Bronze Age to contemporary..

A military museum with the wreckage of a B-52 bomber shot down over Hanoi in 1972..