Visiting the Ho Chi Minh Museum - Ho Chi Minh City branch (Nguyen Tat Thanh Street, District 4), Mr. Bui Hung Nhan (63 years old, from Ha Tinh) attentively read each caption under the pictures of President Ho Chi Minh.
Mr. Nhan lingered for a long time in front of the model of the Amiral Latouche Treville - the ship where the young man Nguyen Tat Thanh, also known as Van Ba, worked as a kitchen assistant, starting his journey to find a way to save the country.
After a long pause to chat, Mr. Nhan said that when he was young, he had heard stories about Uncle Ho. "Now that I have seen these artifacts with my own eyes at the museum, I truly understand the meaning of the stories she told. Each artifact here is a story, a vivid evidence of Uncle Ho's great life and career," Mr. Nhan said.
What makes Nha Rong Wharf even more special is the historical event associated with the life of President Ho Chi Minh. On June 5, 1911, he left this port to board the Amiral Latouche-Treville ship, starting his journey to France to find a way to save the country.
This marked an important turning point in the struggle for independence, freedom and national unification, which was an important premise leading to the birth of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
To mark the above event, after the liberation of the South and the reunification of the country (1975), Nha Rong (built in 1862) was renovated as a memorial site for President Ho Chi Minh. On September 2, 1979, this place opened to visitors to display "President Ho Chi Minh's career of finding a way to save the country".
In October 1995, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee decided to change the name of "President Ho Chi Minh Memorial Area" to "Ho Chi Minh Museum - Ho Chi Minh City branch".
Currently, Ho Chi Minh Museum is ranked as a City-level architectural and artistic relic, and is one of the attractive tourist destinations recognized by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee.
According to the Ho Chi Minh Museum, over the past 40 years, the museum has successfully carried out its tasks of researching, collecting, inventorying, preserving, displaying, and disseminating the life, great revolutionary career, ideology, morality, and style of President Ho Chi Minh to all classes of people. Thereby, contributing to preserving and promoting the value of the cultural heritage that Uncle Ho left to the nation.
Mr. Duong Tan Phat (25 years old, living in Tan Phu district) said that he is extremely proud to live and work in the city named after Uncle Ho, to have the opportunity to visit the Ho Chi Minh Museum, to admire the artifacts associated with Uncle Ho's life and career, thereby understanding more about the values he left for the younger generation.
Nha Rong Wharf is a complex of relics and architecture located on the Saigon River, with its front facing Thu Ngu flagpole and Bach Dang Wharf (District 1).
For Vietnamese people, Ben Nha Rong is one of the places with special historical significance, a "red address" that attracts many people and tourists to visit and learn about the great life of President Ho Chi Minh.
