Sixteen wartime artifacts, including tanks, artillery, and planes, are rotting away under the sun in Thua Thien-Hue Province, central Vietnam.

The outdoor display area at the Thua Thien-Hue Historical Museum in Hue City, Thua Thien-Hue Province has become a graveyard for vehicles and weapons left from wartime, including MIG-21 fighter aircraft, UH-1 helicopters, A-37 attack aircraft, and M107 self-propelled artillery.

Prior to being moved to the museum in 2020, these wartime artifacts had been on display inside the Hue Imperial Citadel. 

Since the relocation, they have all fallen into varying states of disrepair.

In addition to the blankets of rust that now cover the machinery, visitors have left garbage throughout the free-of-charge exhibit area, including inside a UH-1 helicopter.

Nguyen Duc Loc, director of the Thua Thien-Hue Historical Museum, said the museum has hired security guards and assigned a deputy director of the museum to oversee the exhibit area in order to prevent further damage caused by visitors.

The museum has submitted to the provincial administration a plan to preserve all of the exhibits at a cost of some VND1 billion (US$40,756), Loc added.

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