In late 2019, plans for the Vietnamese Museum Australia (VMA) were announced for Footscray in Melbourne’s inner west, an area with a rich history of Vietnamese migration and home to intergenerational diaspora communities. Land deposit was paid for 222 Barkly Street (also known as 120 Donald Street) to house the four-storey Museum. The original plan was for construction to begin 2023/2024 so that VMA could open by April 2025, in time for the 50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon and the arrival of Vietnamese refugees in Australia.