Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum
Art Deco colonial mansion holding thousands of artworks, wrapped in a famous ghost legend.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum follows the legend of Hua Tieu Lan, the youngest daughter of pawnbroker Hui Bon Hoa, said to have been hidden away in an upstairs room of this mansion and never seen in public again. You'll hear the whispered reason behind her disappearance, and how a 1973 film turned the rumor into a citywide sensation. It also traces the real Hui Bon Hoa, who arrived from China with nothing and built a fortune that funded this Art Deco mansion between 1929 and 1934. Look up at the shuttered upper windows as you listen.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
HCMC History Museum
Grand colonial-era hall of forty thousand relics, from Bronze Age drums to a two-century-old preserved mummy.
Museum of Ho Chi Minh City
Baroque-and-oriental former governor's palace hiding a bomb-proof concrete bunker beneath its floors.
Nhà thờ Huyện Sỹ
Gothic Revival church funded by a colonial-era tycoon, whose marble tomb lies behind the altar.
Dragon House Harbor - Ho Chi Minh Museum
Riverside French colonial wharf building with dragon-topped roof, from which a young clerk left for a thirty-year odyssey.
Southern Women's Museum
Former police chief's villa turned museum of ao dai gowns, wartime diaries and women's resistance history.
Saigon Opera House
Flamboyant colonial opera house whose carved facade statues were stripped, then restored decades on.