Other major tourist attractions are the two National Museumes of History in Ha Noi and Saigon. These are fine buildings in themselves,and have magnificent, if not always adequately displayed, collections illustrating Vietnamese culture from the Palaeolithic to the independent medieval dynasties. Not surprisingly, the dominant theme of the two National Museumes in Ha Noi and Saigon is the early maturing of the culture of the Lac Viet peoples in the Red River Valley, their subjection to 'brutal Han imperialism'.the struggle for independence and resistence to the repeated Chinese invasions