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The War Remnants Museum is a war museum at 28 Vo Van Tan, in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City (Sai Gon), Vietnam. It contains exhibits relating to the Vietnam war and the first Indochina War involving the French colonialists. History: Operated by Vietnamse government, an earlier version of this museum opened on September 4, 1975, as the Exhibition House for US and Pupet Crimes. It located in the former United States Information Agency building. The exhibition was not the first of its kind for the North Vietnamese side, but rather followed a tradition of such exhibition exposing war crimes, first those of the Frech and then those of Americans, who had operated in the country as early as 1954. In 1990, the name was changed to Exhibition House for Crimes of War and Aggression.droppong both "U.S" and "Puppet". In 1995, following the normalization of diplomatic relations with the United States and end of US embargo a year before, the references to " war crimes" and "aggression" were dropped from the museum's title as well; it became the War Remnants Museum. Exhibits: The museum comprise a series of themed rooms in several buildings, with period military equipment placed within a walled yard. The military equipment includes a UH-1 "Huey" helicoper, an F5-5A fighter, a BLU-82 " Daisy Cutter " bomb, M48 Pattin tank, an A-1 Skyraider attack bomber, and a A-37 Dragonfly attack bomber. There are a number of pieces of unexploded ordnance stored in the corner of the yard, with their charges and/or fuses removed. On building reproduces the "tiger cages" in which the South Vietnames goverment kept political prisonners. Other exhibits include graphic photography, accompanied by a short text in English, Vietnamese and Japanese, covering the effects of Agent Orange and other chemical defoliant sprays, the use of