HCMC History Museum
Grand colonial-era hall of forty thousand relics, from Bronze Age drums to a two-century-old preserved mummy.
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This guide to the HCMC History Museum opens in 1994, when workers clearing ground in District Five broke into a sealed tomb and found a woman's body wrapped in shroud after shroud soaked in a strange red liquid, never decayed. The museum's own records name her Tran Thi Hieu, other researchers call her Nguyen Thi Hieu and link her to the family of Gia Long, and the only clue in the tomb itself is a stone tablet carved with three words: the year of the snake.
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