The Southeastern Armed Forces Museum Military Zone 7 is a military museum located at 247 Hoang Van Thu Street, Tan Binh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It covers all Vietnamese resistance to foreign occupation from the Chinese occupation, the First Indochina War and the Vietnam War and the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
The Museum's opening hours are from 07:30 to 11:30 and from 13:00 to 16:30 daily except Monday. Admission is free for Vietnamese and 40,000 VND for non-Vietnamese, plus VND 10,000 to take photos.
The buildings were originally built for the American Community School in Saigon in 1958/9, however when US dependents were ordered to leave South Vietnam in February 1965, the vacated buildings became available for use by the 3rd Field Hospital. The hospital was conveniently located near to Tan Son Nhut Air Base allowing for transfer of casualties within South Vietnam and the medical evacuation of casualties to other US hospital facilities in the Pacific.[2]
Exhibits
The museum comprises two main sections: an outdoor display of large military equipment and a military museum.