The biggest Vietnamese Museum of old arms in Vung Tau

With 500 mannequins dressed in military uniforms from all around the world and thousands of rare arms, this museum is considered worth seeing by Vietnamese people

If light house, night market, Sau stretch are familiar tourist places in Vung Tau, Museum of old arms is quite strange to many visitors including native residents  because not many people think that a city having strength to develop seaside tourism can own a strange and unique treasure like that.

Following the winding steep leading to the well-known light house of Vung Tau city, tourists will be overwhelmed before a house that looks like a new castle. There locates the Museum of old arms ( or Worldwide Arms Museum) opened at the bigining of 2012 and gained Guiness award for The biggest Private Museum of old arms in Vietnam.

Lying on high hill and being 50m high from sea surface, museum is really a nice position to view the whole city. The first impression is that this place has a large yard with walls surrounding sustainably and a classical European watchtower. Besides fortresses laid on surrounding wall, around the yard is dozens of turrets turning their barrels toward the sea. It’s enough to make visitors feel like they are sightseeing an ancient architecture in Europe.

Going inside, whether you love exploring museum or you  are just simply curious with old arms stock, you still can’t bear looking at every relicts showed here. With the size of 300m2, people can also see Museum of military uniforms along with weapons of many countries in the world such as Japan, China, Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Russia, …from century to century.

To make visitors figure out more clearly about the army history of many countries in the world, Museum’s space is divided into rooms with separate status in order of time. Room 1 is the area for period from acient times to Middle Ages with the Viking  warriors, Spartan, Chinese soldiers through the age, samurai and shogun of Japan, Roman army, Hoplite army,…Especially there are a lot of swords and guns of Muong people (Vietnam) in 19^th century.

Room 2 is area belonging to British Army in modern times with the postman, the trumpet signals, cavalry, navy, …On the same floor but in room 3 is exhibiting space for guns of British, French, Germany, Holland Army…in century 17-19 such as pistols, rifles, muskets…

Room 4 is where visitors can enjoy the military equipments of European countries in Modern times. Even tourists can see a number of weapons from Russia and Britain in this Museum.

The journey with few hours to visit arms Museum seems to be boring and stiff but really interesting when taking tourists out from surprise to surprise. That’s when you discover culture of each country according to several types of arms with exquisitely  carved images.

Not only impressed by the diversity and variety, those kinds of arms in the Museum bring about interesting lessons through historical stories translated specifically into Vietnamese and English. If people do not like long  historical stories, certainly when you come here, you will find passion and love on this subject.

As a highlight in Vung Tau’ tourist picture, this private Museum recently suffers conflicts about ownership, so it is temporarily closed, and this leaves regrets for visitors.