One source you should consider is the U.S. Army Museum system, who for
     rather obvious reasons has exhibits about the Vietnam war from every
     military perspective.  Some of the exhibits are a bit old, like the
     one at Aberdeen Proving Ground Museum which refers to the Viet Cong in
     the present tense! [Still a good exhibit.]  There are many U.S. Army
     museums scattered around the country (as well as in Europe and Asia).
 
     To get information about these museums, the point of contact is:
 
                Department of the Army
                Center for Military History
                ATTN:  DAMH-MD
                1099 Fourteenth St. NW
                Washington, DC  20005-3402
                (202) 504-5373
 
     The Chief Curator is Judson E. Bennett, Jr.
 
     If you are interested, I can provide information (a press release and
     a script) about an exhibit at the Armed Forces Medical Museum (now the
     National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of
     Pathology that was on display from the early 1970's to 1989.
 
     I can be reached at:
                Alan Hawk
                National Museum of Health and Medicine
                Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
                Bldg 54, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
                Washington, DC  20306-6000
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     One interesting point:
     During the Vietnam War, there were a couple of museums maintained by
     military personnel in Vietnam.
 
     One museum was run by the Combined Materiel Exploitation Branch, MACV
     in Saigon in the early 1970's.  It featured captured Viet Cong
     equipment.  While I doubt that this museum was ever open to the
     general Vietnamese population, a couple of the surviving display
     labels are typed in both English and Vietnamese.  Much of the medical
     equipment worked it's way to the National Museum of Health and
     Medicine and the Army Medical Department Museum in San Antonio, Texas.
     I suspect other types of equipment wound up in other Army museums.
 
     Another museum was run by a surgeon stationed at the 2nd Surgical
     Hospital in An Khe in 1967-1968.  It featured items collected to
     document wound ballistics based on case histories of patients who went
     through the hospital.  It gradually grew to include examples of
     weapons used by the Viet Cong and other miscellaneous artifacts.  The
     information generated by this collection was used in a series of
     articles in Military Surgeon desribing the treatment of combat wounds
     published during the war.
 
     I would be interested if any of the Vietnam veterans who are reading
     this have any recollections of these two museums or any similiar
     museums.