Memorial area of ​​President Ho Chi Minh at the Presidential Palace

Memorial area of ​​President Ho Chi Minh at the Presidential Palace

Memorial area of ​​President Ho Chi Minh at the Presidential Palace is located in Ngoc Ha ward, Ba Dinh district, Hanoi city. This is where President Ho Chi Minh lived and worked the longest during his revolutionary life (from December 19, 1954 to September 2, 1969), and is also the headquarters of the Central Committee. The Party and State of Vietnam after the success of the August Revolution (1945). The total area of ​​the Memorial Area is more than 10 hectares, including a system of houses, yards, gardens, lawns, fish ponds, paths, of which the highlights are 3 component relics: House 54, Uncle Ho's Stilt House and Uncle Ho's House. 67. House 54 President Ho Chi Minh lived and worked in this house for nearly 4 years (from December 1954 to mid-May 1958). After that, he moved to a house on stilts, built in the garden of the Presidential Palace, but he still returned here for daily meals and regular health check-ups. Therefore, House 54 is still the place associated with President Ho Chi Minh's daily life during the last 15 years of his life. House 54 has three rooms, the side adjacent to the pond is the office and also where he receives guests, in the middle is the dining room, next is the bedroom. In President Ho Chi Minh's dining room, a set of tableware that he often uses every day is displayed. In the bedroom, President Ho Chi Minh's daily belongings were simple, like all ordinary people: a set of tables and chairs for him to read at night, a simple small bed without any frills or fuss, a wardrobe - in the wardrobe there are only a few sets of clothes that people wear every day and khaki clothes that people use when receiving guests or going on business trips... The total number of documents and artifacts in House 54 is nearly 400 units, especially paper artifacts have more than 300 units. These can be considered the most authentic evidence, making the strongest and most moving impression of the extremely pure, simple, yet orderly and scientific daily life of President Ho Chi Minh. Uncle Ho's stilt house This is where President Ho Chi Minh lives and works in the summer, and is also where he meets and exchanges work with comrades in the Politburo, officials in charge of ministries, branches or localities, especially are officers and soldiers from the South who went to the North for medical treatment and work. The upper floor of the Stilt House has an office and a bedroom for him. The office has a desk, a chair, and a bookshelf. The bottom shelf of the bookshelf is a typewriter, used every day by President Ho Chi Minh as a pen. In the bedroom, his living amenities are simple: a wooden bed covered with a sedge mat, in winter there is an extra mattress, cotton blanket and a small electric heater. On the desk in his bedroom, there are still some books, magazines, a hat and a transistor radio given to him by overseas Vietnamese in Thailand. On the small cabinet placed at the head of the bed, there is still a clock and the book The Resistance War Against the Mongol Invasion of the 13th Century that he was reading in the middle of reading. President Ho Chi Minh lived and worked in this house for the last 11 years of his life (1958 - 1969). Currently, nearly 250 of Uncle Ho's documents and the entire architecture and grounds of the Stilt House are still preserved and preserved as in the last days when President Ho Chi Minh lived and worked here. House 67 This house is located behind the Stilt House (about 30m away), construction started on May 1, 1967, and inaugurated on July 20, 1967. This is where President Ho Chi Minh often met with the Politburo, and is also where he worked during the time the US imperialists escalated their raids on the North (1967 - 1969), where he healed and died, so it is often visited. called House 67 or DK2. In 1967, the US imperialist's adventure to expand the destructive war in the North with its air force and navy became increasingly fierce; Hanoi, Hai Phong and a number of other cities and many industrial zones were bombarded day and night. Faced with that situation, the Politburo decided to build a solid house behind the Stilt House, with an air defense bunker on the right side, to ensure absolute safety for people when American aircraft suddenly bombarded it. Officers and soldiers at the Department of Construction, under the Military Engineering Command, were assigned the task of designing and constructing this project. The walls are more than 60cm thick, the ceiling is more than 1 meter thick, all made of concrete, reinforced steel... President Ho Chi Minh did not accept this house for himself. He proposed using it as a meeting place for the Politburo, working with Central comrades to discuss important issues of the country. From August 25, 1969 onwards, President Ho Chi Minh fell seriously ill, and his condition became worse and more complicated every day. According to the decision of the Politburo, House 67 became a place for medical treatment for him. Comrades in the Politburo, professors, and leading doctors all gathered here to take care of Uncle Ho's health. Because of his old age and weak health, President Ho Chi Minh could not overcome a serious illness. The clock on the small cabinet next to the bed and the wall calendar stopped at the moment he left: 9:47 a.m., September 2, 1969. Over the past forty years, in this house, nearly 100 documents and artifacts have been preserved and arranged intact as before, always recalling the activities and issues of President Ho Chi Minh's concern during the past forty years. the last day of his life. It can be affirmed that the Memorial Area of ​​President Ho Chi Minh at the Presidential Palace is one of the relics with special value in many aspects. During 15 years of living here, President Ho Chi Minh, together with the Politburo of the Party Central Committee and the Government, proposed the right strategic guidelines and strategies for the Vietnamese revolution and led the people to overcome difficult challenges. go fiercely to simultaneously carry out two strategic tasks: building socialism in the North, fighting against US imperialism and its henchmen, liberating the South towards reunifying the country; Actively contributing to the struggle for national independence, democracy, peace and social progress in the world. With all these meanings, after President Ho Chi Minh left, the place where he lived and worked, along with the relics and memorabilia here, became precious evidence, sacred symbols of life. , his activities in the last 15 years of his life, reflect the highest values ​​of Ho Chi Minh's thought and morality. With the special historical, cultural and scientific values ​​of the Memorial Area, the Prime Minister decided to classify the Memorial Area of ​​President Ho Chi Minh at the Presidential Palace (Ba Dinh district, Ho Chi Minh City) as a historical relic. Hanoi City) is a special national monument (Decision No. 1272/QD-TTg, dated August 12, 2009). Source Department of Cultural Heritage

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