From the Red River to the Mekong Delta: Masterpieces of the History Museum - Ho Chi Minh City

Seventeen centuries of Vietnamese sacred art, architecture, and feats of little known water engineering preserved in this museum collection.

From the 2nd century CE to the 19th century, the people of the fertile estuary of the great Mekong River created treasures of sacred art, architecture and accomplished feats of water engineering that are coming to light in Vietnam’s vigorous new archaeological research programmes. The large stilted wooden houses of Oc Eo, the early Venice of the maritim...