Ho Chi Minh Museum

This museum, dedicated to the life and deeds of Ho Chi Minh (broadly defined), was built with the aid of the USSR. Though modern in architectural style, its shape alludes to the lotus, symbolically associated in Buddhist mythology with perfect understanding.
Views of the side
		Central room with the enormous statue of Ho Chi Minh His hand is raised in the symbolic gesture of learning with the sun behind him rising through the clouds.
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