The Museum of Ho Chi Minh City occupies the Gia Long Palace, at the corner of Lý Tự Trọng and Nam Kỳ Khởi Nghĩa streets in Ho Chi Minh City. The French architect Marie-Alfred Foulhoux designed it. The source gives construction as 1885 to 1890, and it was designed to house a Museum of Commercial Trade. It describes the style as classical Baroque with European and Oriental influences.
It later became the residence of the Governor of Cochinchina. In 1954 Bảo Đại renamed it Gia Long Palace. From 1966 to 1975 it housed the Supreme Court of the Republic of Vietnam.
It became the Ho Chi Minh City Revolutionary Museum in 1978 and took its present name in 1999. It has two floors covering over 1,700 square meters, European-style halls, an Oriental-inspired roof and a basement of six rooms.
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