The original building in which the Southern Women’s Museum is housed once belonged to Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, Director of the General Police Department under the former Sài Gòn government. In 1984 it became the Traditional House of Southern Women.

Another four-storey building was subsequently added and the whole complex became the Southern Women’s Museum. The museum’s 2,000 square metre display area is divided into 10 rooms, each of which recounts the role played by southern Vietnamese women in national construction and defence. The museum also incorporates a 500-seat meeting hall, a film theatre, a library and a shop and functions as a centre for women’s cultural and educational activities, traditional meetings, scientific seminars and cultural exchanges for women.