Dien Bien Province

DIEN BIEN PHU HISTORICAL VICTORY MUSEUM

Address: Muong Thanh Ward, Dien Bien Phu City, Dien Bien Province.

View of Dien Bien Phu Victory Museum.(Photo: internet)

Located on Vo Nguyen Giap Street, opposite A1 Martyr Cemetery, Dien Bien Phu Historical Victory Museum was started rebuilt and completed in 2014 on the 60th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory. The museum is designed in the shape of a former Dien Bien soldier’s mesh hat covered with camouflage leaves. The exhibition hall of the Museum consists of 5 parts, nearly 1,000 documents, and artifacts along with vivid historical landscapes and scenes that recreate the arduous but also very heroic war of our soldiers people.

In addition, the museum has put the Panaroma painting "Dien Bien Phu Campaign" in to exhibition. This historical painting, made for the first time in Vietnam with a length of 132m and a height of 20.5m, introduces 4 scenes: All people go to war; The epic prelude; The historical confrontation; and The Victory, to express the message of our nation's aspiration for independence and freedom, the will to rise up, the spirit of solidarity to fight bravely and tenaciously, and the military art and the heroic atmosphere of the era of historical victory respectively.

 

The fixed display area in the museum is divided into zones, with key themes about the war against the French from 1945 to 1953, the Winter-Spring Campaign 1953 - 1954, Dien Bien Phu campaign, and the help of the world for the Dien Bien Phu campaign (Photo: internet)

  • The statue of General Vo Nguyen Giap and a list of armed force heroes participating in Dien Bien Phu campaign (Photo: internet)

Portrait of 26 heroes contributing to the historic victory of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 (Photo: internet)

Heroes To Vinh Dien and Phan Dinh Giot in the middle (Photo: internet)

President Ho Chi Minh, General Vo Nguyen Giap and generals in a meeting (Photo: internet)

Display areas with pictures of activities of the two resistance wars against France and the United States (Photo: internet)

Dien Bien Phu soldiers (Photo: internet)

Vietnamese soldiers stand on the bunker of Christian de Castries with the flag of victory (Photo: internet)

Pulling cannons up a hill (Photo: internet)

A 105 mm artillery produced by the U.S. military for France. It was seized by Vietnam soldiers in the Border campaign in 1950 and then used to attack Him Lam in the Dien Bien Phu campaign on March 13, 1954 (Photo: internet)

The bike of a transporter used to carry up to 320kg of goods/time for the Dien Bien Phu campaign (Photo: internet)

French soldiers (Photo: internet)

Medical emergency forces (Photo: internet)

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