HCM CITY — The War Remnants Museum in HCM City has been named among the top 10 museums in the world by travel website TripAdvisor, the only one in Asia to make the list, Nhân Dân newspaper reported.

The ranking is based on the 2018 Travelers Choice Awards for Museums in which award winners were determined by an algorithm that took into account the quantity and quality of reviews and ratings for museums world-wide.

Musee d’Orsay in Paris tops the list followed by the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the British Museum in London, and Prado National Museum in Madrid.

Founded in 1975, the War Remnants Museum is a unit under the HCM City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.  

A member of the World Council of Museums, it is a museum for thematic research, collection, storage, preservation, and display of the materials, photographs, artefacts on the evidence of wartime consequences faced by Việt Nam.

The museum has more than 20,000 documents, exhibits and films, of which more than 1,500 items have been on display at eight exhibitions frequently. It is one of the most visited sites in the city.

The museum is located at 28 Võ Văn Tần Street, District 3. Tickets cost VNĐ40,000 for adults and VNĐ20,000 for children aged between six and 16, and free for children under six. — VNS