Dong Thap Museum

Mekong Delta


The Dong Thap Museum is among the Mekong's best museums, despite having only limited English captions. The ground floor of the handsome building displays an anthropological history of Dong Thap province, with exhibits of tools, sculptures, models of traditional houses and a few stuffed animals and pickled fish. Upstairs is devoted to war history and Ho Chi Minh.


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