What I Saw: Inside the War Remnants Museum

A visual companion to "Colonial Echoes at the Checkout Counter"

I went to the War Remnants Museum looking for context trying to understand the interactions I’d been having in convenience stores and cafés across Ho Chi Minh City. What I found was a museum that refuses to look away.

The War Remnants Museum doesn’t sanitize. It doesn’t “both sides” anything. It shows what was done here — by the French, by the Americans,…