The Da Nang Museum (Bảo tàng Đà Nẵng) tells the story of the city from its natural setting to the wars of the 20th century and the city it has become, and since March 2025 it does so inside a French colonial building on Bach Dang Street. Some travel pages still give its old address, an old ticket rule or an old weekly schedule. So which day can you go, what does it cost, and which floor should you start with?
How to plan a visit to the Da Nang Museum
If you want a few hours out of the heat or the rain in central Da Nang, the museum is easy to fit in. The Da Nang Museum is at 31 Tran Phu Street, Hai Chau ward, and it is open from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm every day; a standard ticket costs 50,000 VND (about US$2) for Vietnamese and foreign visitors alike.
The same building is also numbered 42 Bach Dang Street, and it faces three streets: Bach Dang, Quang Trung and Tran Phu. Han Market is on the same street, at 119 Tran Phu, so the two make an easy pair. The Han Market guide has its hours.
The museum opened in this building on March 28, 2025. The building was the office of the French mayor of Tourane, then Da Nang Town Hall; a French architect designed it in the neoclassical style, and it was built from 1898 to 1900. Some guides published before the move still give the old address at 24 Tran Phu.
Opening hours: open every day
Older advice says the museum closes on Mondays, so it is worth knowing which schedule is the newer one. The museum's own pages and the city tourism board's July 2025 notice give the same hours, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm daily.
Two older schedules explain the confusion. A museum notice of March 29, 2025, set opening days from April 1, 2025, as Tuesday to Saturday, 8:00 to 11:30 am and 2:00 to 5:00 pm. A travel page updated on April 20, 2025, gives Tuesday to Sunday with the same hours, closed on Mondays. Daily hours, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, started on July 3, 2025, with the new fees.
Tickets, discounts and free days
Check which group you fall into before you pay, because several discounts apply only to Vietnamese citizens. The prices below come from Resolution 47 of the Da Nang People's Council, in force since June 10, 2026, which kept the fee that the museum has charged since July 3, 2025.
| Visitor | Price |
|---|---|
| Regular visitors, Vietnamese and foreign | 50,000 VND (about US$2) |
| Vietnamese citizens with permanent residence in Da Nang; university, college, intermediate and vocational students | 20,000 VND (about US$0.78) |
| Children under 16 and school pupils | Free |
| Vietnamese citizens aged 60 and over, Vietnamese citizens with a disability certificate, diplomatic guests | Free |
Free entry for people aged 60 and over applies only to Vietnamese citizens, so foreign visitors over 60 pay the standard price. The residents' price is for citizens, so if you live in Da Nang as a foreigner, ask the museum before counting on it.
The resolution makes entry free for everyone on five days a year:
- the first day of the Lunar New Year (Tet), February 6 in 2027;
- March 29, the anniversary of Da Nang's liberation;
- the 10th day of the third lunar month, Hung Kings' Commemoration Day, April 16 in 2027;
- September 2, National Day;
- November 24, Vietnamese Culture Day.
November 24 is new in the 2026 resolution and was not on the July 2025 list, so the next free day is November 24, 2026.
What is on each floor
With three floors to cover, it helps to know the route before you start. The museum keeps nearly 27,000 documents and objects and shows about 3,000 of them, arranged in nine themes over three floors, with projections alongside the displays. The museum's own description says the visit starts on the third floor.
Third floor: the city's story
The third floor follows Da Nang through time. Its themes are:
- an overview of the city, and nature and people in Da Nang;
- urban history, from the feudal period and French rule (1888–1945) to 1975;
- the struggle for national independence, from the fight against French and Spanish forces in 1858–1860 to the resistance against the French (1945–1954) and the war against the US (1954–1975);
- war remnants;
- integration and development;
- Da Nang Town Hall, the museum's own building;
- the culture of the Viet people of the Quang region.
Second floor: lamps, agarwood and ethnic minority cultures
The second floor has antique lamps and agarwood from the Quang region, a research and development space, and the cultures of ethnic minority peoples in Da Nang, such as the Co Tu, Xo Dang, Gie-Trieng and Cor.
First floor: antiques, children and short exhibitions
The first floor holds the antiques collection, with Chu Dau ceramics, Nguyen-dynasty ceramics and porcelain, Vietnamese lime pots and old ceramics from the central provinces. It also has a space for short exhibitions and a children's area for displays and learning activities. The museum posts its short exhibitions on its website, so check there before you go if you want to see one.
The museum's other two sites
If one museum leaves you wanting more, two more buildings belong to the same museum. Since a city decision of September 15, 2025, the Da Nang Museum has run three sites: the main building on Tran Phu Street, the Fine Arts Museum and a second site on Phan Boi Chau Street.
- Fine Arts Museum, 78 Le Duan Street: open 8:00 am to 5:00 pm every day; 40,000 VND (about US$1.5), or 20,000 VND (about US$0.78) for citizens with permanent residence in Da Nang and for university and vocational students.
- Da Nang Museum, second site, 281 Phan Boi Chau Street, Ban Thach ward: open 7:30 to 11:30 am and 1:30 to 4:30 pm every day; 20,000 VND (about US$0.78), or 10,000 VND (about US$0.39) for citizens with permanent residence in Da Nang and for university, college, intermediate and vocational students. Its two floors cover natural resources and ethnic cultures, and the social history of the former Quang Nam province. It keeps three national treasures, among them a head of the god Shiva from the 10th century.
Both are free for everyone on November 24, the same as the main site. Each site has its own fee under the 2026 rules.
The Museum of Cham Sculpture is a separate museum with its own ticket. The Museum of Cham Sculpture guide covers its hours and treasures, and the rainy day guide lists other indoor places in the city.
Sources and how we checked
We used the Da Nang Museum's website, the Da Nang city portal and dated Vietnamese news reports, checked on November 11, 2026, and where the museum's older and newer notices differ, we give the newer one and say what changed. We found no combined ticket for the three sites in the city's fee notice or on the museum's site. US dollar amounts use Vietcombank's transfer rate of 25,800 VND per US$ on October 1, 2026, rounded to the nearest cent below US$1, US$0.5 up to US$100, US$1 up to US$10,000 and US$1,000 above that.
- Da Nang Museum (in Vietnamese): main site (December 30, 2025); visitor information; third floor (January 25, 2026); second floor (January 26, 2026); antiques collection, first floor (January 26, 2026); history of the museum (December 29, 2025); second site (December 25, 2025); visiting notice (March 29, 2025).
- Da Nang city portal (in Vietnamese): museum entry fees under Resolution 47 (June 8, 2026).
- Danang Fantasticity: new admission fees and opening hours from July 3 (July 2, 2025).
- Van Hoa newspaper (in Vietnamese): opening of the new site (March 28, 2025); free entry on March 29, 2026 (March 28, 2026); new fees for the Fine Arts Museum and the second site (June 9, 2026).
- Travel pages with older details: Hoi An Day Trip (updated April 20, 2025) and Origin Vietnam (updated June 10, 2025).
- Photos: Da Nang Museum website, third floor and main site pages listed above.
Updated: November 15, 2026
