Apparently the Vietnamese government renamed the museum. It definitely was once called the Museum of American Atrocities.

My second visit I was with a friend who served as a doctor in the air force during the Vietnam War. He was only in Vietnam during the war for a couple of days, but spend a lot of time at a hospital in Thailand. About five minutes touring the indoor part of the museum, was all he could stomach.

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Here is a travelogue that talks about the name change.

http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/onroad2.htm

This afternoon was devoted to the War Remnants Museum which is thankfully no longer known as the Museum of American War Atrocities, but it might as well be. The point of view is clearly one sided, but certainly not untrue. An American who signed the guest book argues that the Viet Cong too committed atrocities, and cried that the museum was propaganda. Most of the rest of us Americans neglected to sign the book and allowed it to remain the forum of Europeans and Asians wondering if we were about to repeat ourselves in Iraq.

{As I transcribe this entry from my notebook on 12/26/02, I remember the War Remnants Museum in Saigon as the first really tough experience on the trip. I had been doing a good amount of research on the war, so the facts presented in the museum weren't completely new to me, but the images were striking. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, yes. When is the last time you were able to HEAR a thousand words in a row, all of them, each of them? The images in this museum, in their relentless presence are each worth a thousand heard words. At first I was embarrassed as an American. Ultimately I was embarrassed as a human.}