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Located at the Tomb of Khải Định (陵啓定), the life-sized bronze statue of the Emperor was cast in Marseille, France, in 1920 by artists P. Ducuing and F. Barbedienne. The ceiling above features the "Nine Dragons in the Clouds" fresco, painted by artist Phan Văn Tánh. Remarkably, he painted the mural using his feet and mouth to hold the brushes while suspended upside down on scaffolding. The Emperor’s actual body is interred 9 meters directly beneath the statue.

Rare statue from the Ly dynasty. At first I thought it was a small pedestal, but then I saw the watermelon.

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Cà cổ nhạc chương (茄鼓樂章), a Qinglong era (Qing dynasty) book that synthesizes music for a drum instrument. The chapter of this book is written in 4 different scripts (from left to right): Manchu script, Mongolian script, Hanzi, and Chữ nôm.