Independence Palace tickets 2026: 80,000 dong for adults

Adult admission to the Independence Palace in Ho Chi Minh City is 80,000 dong in 2026, according to the palace's own English language website. Students and seniors are listed at 40,000 dong, and children aged 6 to 17 at 20,000 dong.

Opening hours

The site gives hours of 7am to 6pm daily, including public holidays and Lunar New Year, unless a special announcement says otherwise. That is unusually generous for a Vietnamese state site, and it removes the trap that catches people at museums elsewhere in the city, which is the standing Monday closure.

A worked example

Two adults with two children aged between 6 and 17 pay 200,000 dong in total. Two adults alone pay 160,000 dong. A student couple with valid cards pays 80,000 dong, the same as one full adult ticket.

Tickets are sold through an official online counter as well as at the site. The website shows no discount for buying online and lists no combined ticket covering the separate exhibitions or group rate, so treat 80,000 dong as the base entry figure and nothing more. What is not stated on that page is whether the separate exhibition spaces inside the compound are included in the adult ticket or charged again.

Sources: dinhdoclap.gov.vn.

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