Subjects exempted or reduced from entrance fees to the Vietnam Military History Museum

Issuing a circular on collecting and paying museum fees is urgent.

According to the Ministry of Finance , the current budget to maintain and ensure the museum's operations is mainly regular expenditure from the state budget for national defense. However, this budget source is not enough to meet the needs for the museum's annual operations.

The lack of a circular on museum entrance fees has had a certain impact on fee collection organizations and fee payers.

The Vietnam Military History Museum will be in operation from November 2024, but to date there are no specific regulations or instructions on the collection, payment and use of entrance fees.

Therefore, in order to have a basis for collecting fees according to regulations as well as a source of funding to ensure the maintenance of museum operations, the issuance of a draft circular is necessary, and should be issued soon to promptly handle problems arising in practice.

Many subjects are exempted or have reduced entrance fees.

According to the draft, the entrance fee to the Vietnam Military History Museum is 40,000 VND/person/visit.

The draft clearly states that museum admission is free for the following cases: Children according to the law on children; the elderly aged 80 years and over; people with severe disabilities according to the law on people with disabilities; people who enjoy preferential policies on cultural enjoyment according to the law (including the disabled, lonely elderly people; subjects cared for at social protection facilities; students of ethnic boarding schools); veterans...

Also according to the draft, the entrance fee to the Vietnam Military History Museum will be reduced by 50% for the following cases: People from 16 to under 18 years old; students of universities, colleges, intermediate schools and vocational schools; Elderly people from 60 to under 80 years old; people with severe disabilities according to the provisions of the law on people with disabilities;

People with meritorious services to the revolution (including: veteran revolutionary cadres; pre-uprising cadres; relatives of martyrs; Heroes of the Armed Forces, Heroes of Labor, Heroic Vietnamese Mothers; war invalids, people enjoying policies like war invalids and sick soldiers; subjects receiving care at nursing facilities for war invalids and sick soldiers and people with meritorious services);

Residents in extremely disadvantaged communes, ethnic minorities in communes with extremely difficult socio -economic conditions, border communes, and safe zone communes as prescribed by law.

The draft clearly states that in case a subject is eligible for two or more fee reduction policies, the fee for the Vietnam Military History Museum will only be reduced by 50%.