Ho Chi Minh Museum

President Ho Chi Minh – Vietnamese hero of national liberation and great man of culture. He devoted his whole life to the national of the Vietnamses people, contributing to the common struggle of peoples for peace, national independence, democracy and social progress.

After he passed away on September 2nd 1969, in compliance with the Vietnamese people’s aspiration, the Communist Party of Vietnam’s Politburo decided to build the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and the Ho Chi Minh Museum.

On November 25th 1970, the Board in charge of building the Ho Chi Minh Museum was set up in order to prepare comprehensively for the construction.

After 20 years of preparing and building, the Ho Chi Minh Museum was inaugurated on September 2nd 1990, on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the President.

Ho Chi Minh Museum has more than 120,000 decuments, objects and films about President Ho Chi Minh’s life and revolutionary work. They are invaluable assets of the Vietnamese people in educating patriotism, studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s thought and moral quallties; and encouraging the Vietnamese generations to succeed failthfully and excellently his great revolutionary work.

Since its opening, the museum has welcomed millions of domestic and foreign visitors. It is open from 8 am to 11 am and 1.30pm to 4.30 pm daily except Monday and Friday. Photography is forbidden. Cameras and bags must be left at the reception. Entrance ticket costs 6000d (US$0.45).