Ho Chi Minh Museum

It is located to the right of Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum with its main gate on Chùa Một Cột Street off Hùng Vương Street. According to the museum’s designers, the building evokes a lotus flower symbolizing the lofty morality of President Hồ Chí Minh. The building, 20.5m high, has a basement for equipment, and several floors with a technical section, a study section, a library, and conference halls, etc.

Ho Chi Minh Museum

One main floor of the museum is the museum area and another floor is for provisional exhibitions. The 13,000 m2 museum floor is the central part of the construction. In the ceremonial room in the floor’s center, there is a statue of Hồ Chí Minh. Many documents, art photographs and objects trace the important events in the life of Hồ Chí Minh. The outer part of this floor focuses on the theme “Việt Nam’s revolution linking to the world”. Everything in this museum is displayed in a modem and scientific way.

The museum started to be constructed on 31st August 1985, and it was officially opened on 19th May 1990, on the 100th birth anniversary of Hồ Chí Minh.

Hà Nội Past and Present Nguyen Vinh Phuc - The Gioi Publishers