As part of its goal to raise public awareness and increase tourism to its historical establishments, ${bigcity_Ho_Chi_Minh_City:”Ho Chi Minh City”}'s museums, since early 2011, have brought hundreds of mobile exhibitions to schools, universities and industrial parks in city districts and southern provinces.

Last week, the city branch of the Ho Chi Minh Museum opened a photo exhibition in the city’s culture house in District 1. The exhibit featured the life and career of President Ho Chi Minh. The mobile museum will travel to the Cultural Houses in Phu Nhuan and Tan Binh Districts next month to share such important documentary to the other parts of the provinces.

Other important photo exhibitions and documentaries like that of Viet Nam’s Working Class, President Ho, the Task of Education, and other significant issues or personalities have also been set up by the museum at the Tan Thuan Industrial Park in District 7 and certain schools and colleges in Thu Duc and Phu Nhuan districts. Such presentations were attended in by an impressive tens of thousands of students and other young generations, only proving the huge, positive impact the mobile museums are bringing to the public.

On the other hand, the Ho Chi Minh City Museum, aside from photo exhibitions and documentaries, has also organized such activities as talks on history. Among its most important mobile presentations are the student movements of the then Saigon against foreign aggressors from 1930-1975.

Another museum in the city, the War Remnants Museum, has also lined up activities of its own including talks and exhibitions in remote areas in the Central Highlands and several provinces in the ${attraction_Mekong_Delta:”Mekong Delta”} (Cuu Long) area such as Soc Trang, Ben Tre and Ca Mau. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the US military’s first spraying of toxic chemical Agent Orange into the southern jungles of Vietnam during the American War, a Memories of War photo collection will be displayed for public viewing. The historical pictures were taken and arranged by famous artist Chu Chi Thanh depicting the miserable effects of war such as suffering soldiers, property damages and victimized children and women.

The collection was greatly applauded by the people and has now traveled to Can Gio, the suburban district of Ho Chi Minh City, and the coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau. According to War Remnants Museum director Huynh Ngoc Van, the number of mobile exhibitions reaching out to different provinces in the city has risen to 25% this year compared to 2010. Though this statistic is only good for the said museum, who knows what figures the other museums will show, achieving their mission of bringing their museums to the public, especially in far-flung areas, and encouraging more people to view and be interested in history itself.