National Oceanographic Museum

Bảo tàng Hải dương học (Viện Hải dương học)

Tanks and sea-life specimens in a 1922 research institute

Hours

Daily 6am–6pm (official site)

Tickets

40,000 VND general, 20,000 students, 10,000 school pupils, under-6s free (at the gate)

Address

1 Cau Da, inside the Institute of Oceanography; about 500 m north of the Vinpearl cable-car station

Step into the yellow French-era institute building and sharks and turtles are circling slowly in open-air seawater tanks. The museum belongs to the oceanographic institute founded here in 1922, so the galleries behind are lined with specimens, fish and coral in jars and a big whale skeleton, more than 20,000 pieces in all. It's not a glossy aquarium, but kids tend to get stuck in front of the seahorse and lionfish tanks. A new 'Mysterious Ocean' gallery opened in September 2025.