Review
Such is Ho Chi Minh's role in Vietnam's national story, there is a Ho Chi Minh Museum in every town of any scale across the country. A student of propaganda might be inclined to visit several. Most travellers though will be content to get their dose of the great man's story here, alongside his mausoleum and house on stilts in Hanoi, his capital.
Photo: Mark BowyerHo Chi Minh Museum
The none too subtle Soviet hand is visible all over Ba Dinh Square and the Ho Chi Minh Museum was the Soviet Union's parting gesture of international socialist fraternity before it self-destructed in 1989. As with the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, the museum's designers claim curiously to have been inspired by the lotus flower, in the creation of their structure.
The Ho Chi Minh Museum is unique in Vietnam in scale and in the style of its presentation. Like most museums in the country, it leaves foreign visitors hungry for more information.
Still, its presentations are eye catching, provocative, and more modern than most in Vietnam. It entertains even where it often fails to inform.
Recommended.
Travel tips
Note that the museum is only open mornings Monday and Friday - and they have a long lunch. Dubious have the prime parking spaces near the museum. Avoid them and hail a metered taxi.
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