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The Museum of Ho Chi Minh City occupies the former Gia Long Palace, a neoclassical building designed by Alfred Foulhoux and completed in 1890. It was the residence of the governors of Cochinchina and, in 1962–1963, of President Ngô Đình Diệm. Its galleries now present the history of Saigon and Ho Chi Minh City.
The Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts occupies three buildings, the main one a villa built in 1929–1934 for the Hui Bon Hoa family; the museum moved there in 1987. Its collection covers Vietnamese sculpture and oil, silk and lacquer painting, folk woodcut prints, ceramics, Buddhist art, and Champa and Óc Eo relics.
The Ho Chi Minh City Museum of History opened on 1 January 1929 as the Musée Blanchard de la Brosse, in a building designed by the French architect Auguste Delaval, and took its present name in 1979. Its galleries trace Vietnam from prehistory to the Nguyễn dynasty, with Đông Sơn bronzes, Óc Eo finds and Cham and Khmer stone sculpture.
Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens was commissioned by Admiral de La Grandière in 1864 and opened to the public in 1869. Its shaded grounds hold some 590 animals of 125 species, among them giraffes, white Bengal tigers and gibbons, and about 1,830 trees and plants, with an orchid garden. The Ho Chi Minh City Museum of History also stands within the grounds.
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